Work & commute · Oak Shores

Work & commute in Oak Shores, CA

Most working residents leave Oak Shores for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) (17%), Lake Nacimiento (8%) and Atascadero (6%). Half commute less than 31 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 139 working residents

Typical commute

31 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 137 Oak Shores residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Shores.

137live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

57work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Shores goes to work

El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles)20.8 mi away

17%23

Lake Nacimiento6.7 mi away

8%11

Atascadero25.2 mi away

6%9

San Luis Obispo38.4 mi away

6%8

Santa Maria64.7 mi away

5%7

Los Angeles189 mi away

4%5

Templeton20.5 mi away

2%3

Goleta111.4 mi away

1%2

Visalia100.5 mi away

1%2

Bakersfield112.9 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%67

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

How far

How far Oak Shores commutes

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

12%

28%

22%

38%

12%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

38%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Shores is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Shores are

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

Jobs based in Oak Shores

59 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Oak Shores residents hold

139 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+119%

Jobs based in Oak Shores, 2013 → 2023: 27 → 59. 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.