Work & commute · Orange

Work & commute in Orange, CA

Most working residents leave Orange for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Irvine (10%), Anaheim (9%) and Santa Ana (9%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

7,468 of 59,679 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 52,211 Orange residents head out of town to work, 7,468 work right here, and 98,407 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orange.

52,211live here, work elsewhere

7,468live and work here

98,407work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Orange goes to work

Orange (in town)right here

13%7,468

Irvine9.1 mi away

10%6,108

Anaheim7.6 mi away

9%5,448

Santa Ana3.7 mi away

9%5,350

Los Angeles35.4 mi away

6%3,374

Costa Mesa8.9 mi away

3%1,884

Newport Beach11.1 mi away

3%1,869

Tustin4.8 mi away

3%1,751

Fullerton7.8 mi away

2%1,346

Garden Grove5.7 mi away

2%1,201

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%23,880

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

How far

How far Orange commutes

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

51%

27%

13%

51%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Orange is a job hub

1.77jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Orange are

105,875 jobs are based in Orange. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Orange’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Orange

105,875 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Orange residents hold

59,679 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+15%

Jobs based in Orange, 2013 → 2023: 92,436 → 105,875. 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.