Work & commute · Mountain House

Work & commute in Mountain House, CA

Most working residents leave Mountain House for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Livermore (7%), San Jose (7%) and Pleasanton (6%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

406 of 8,896 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

50 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

26%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,490 Mountain House residents head out of town to work, 406 work right here, and 686 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain House.

8,490live here, work elsewhere

406live and work here

686work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain House goes to work

Livermore13.7 mi away

7%666

San Jose36.7 mi away

7%656

Pleasanton20.3 mi away

6%567

Tracy5.9 mi away

6%514

Fremont29.6 mi away

5%413

Mountain House (in town)right here

5%406

Stockton18.4 mi away

4%352

San Francisco81.8 mi away

3%299

Oakland37.6 mi away

3%279

Santa Clara37.1 mi away

2%222

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%4,522

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Mountain House commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

12%

24%

46%

17%

12%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

46%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain House is a commuter town

0.12jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.12 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain House are

1,092 jobs are based in Mountain House. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain House’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mountain House

1,092 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Mountain House residents hold

8,896 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month74%

+193%

Jobs based in Mountain House, 2013 → 2023: 373 → 1,092. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.