Work & commute · North Fair Oaks

Work & commute in North Fair Oaks, CA

Most working residents leave North Fair Oaks for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Redwood City (12%), Palo Alto (8%) and San Francisco (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

199 of 5,231 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,032 North Fair Oaks residents head out of town to work, 199 work right here, and 3,692 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in North Fair Oaks.

5,032live here, work elsewhere

199live and work here

3,692work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where North Fair Oaks goes to work

Redwood City2.8 mi away

12%637

Palo Alto6.4 mi away

8%407

San Francisco48.6 mi away

7%370

San Jose24.7 mi away

7%356

Menlo Park3.1 mi away

5%266

San Mateo8.3 mi away

4%216

North Fair Oaks (in town)right here

4%199

Mountain View8.6 mi away

4%196

San Carlos3.9 mi away

3%169

Santa Clara15 mi away

3%144

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%2,271

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

How far

How far North Fair Oaks commutes

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

50%

34%

10%

50%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

North Fair Oaks is a commuter town

0.74jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in North Fair Oaks are

3,891 jobs are based in North Fair Oaks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs North Fair Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in North Fair Oaks

3,891 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs North Fair Oaks residents hold

5,231 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+15%

Jobs based in North Fair Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 3,394 → 3,891. 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.