Work & commute · Oak Park

Work & commute in Oak Park, CA

Most working residents leave Oak Park for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (24%), Thousand Oaks (14%) and Westlake Village (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

295 of 5,341 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,046 Oak Park residents head out of town to work, 295 work right here, and 984 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Park.

5,046live here, work elsewhere

295live and work here

984work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Park goes to work

Los Angeles23.4 mi away

24%1,258

Thousand Oaks6.2 mi away

14%773

Oak Park (in town)right here

6%295

Westlake Village4.5 mi away

5%248

Agoura Hills2.5 mi away

5%243

Calabasas6.9 mi away

3%156

Camarillo15.4 mi away

2%119

Burbank25.2 mi away

2%110

Simi Valley5.8 mi away

2%105

San Buenaventura (Ventura)28.4 mi away

2%92

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%1,942

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

How far

How far Oak Park commutes

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

41%

24%

16%

18%

41%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Park is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Park are

1,279 jobs are based in Oak Park. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oak Park

1,279 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Oak Park residents hold

5,341 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+39%

Jobs based in Oak Park, 2013 → 2023: 922 → 1,279. 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.