Work & commute · Oasis

Work & commute in Oasis, CA

Most working residents leave Oasis for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Indio (10%), Coachella (8%) and Palm Desert (6%). Half commute less than 29 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

58 of 1,248 working residents

Typical commute

29 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 1,190 Oasis residents head out of town to work, 58 work right here, and 607 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oasis.

1,190live here, work elsewhere

58live and work here

607work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oasis goes to work

Indio15.5 mi away

10%124

Coachella11.3 mi away

8%97

Palm Desert20 mi away

6%78

Oasis (in town)right here

5%58

Riverside78.1 mi away

4%50

Los Angeles135.5 mi away

3%42

La Quinta11.3 mi away

3%38

San Diego75 mi away

2%31

Vista Santa Rosa8 mi away

2%29

Rancho Mirage23.8 mi away

2%19

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%682

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

How far

How far Oasis commutes

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

18%

30%

47%

18%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

47%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oasis is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oasis are

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

Jobs based in Oasis

665 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)61%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)31%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Oasis residents hold

1,248 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month44%

−41%

Jobs based in Oasis, 2013 → 2023: 1,132 → 665. 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.