Work & commute · Oroville East

Work & commute in Oroville East, CA

Most working residents leave Oroville East for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Oroville (33%), Chico (10%) and Sacramento (2%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

234 of 2,616 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,382 Oroville East residents head out of town to work, 234 work right here, and 1,336 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oroville East.

2,382live here, work elsewhere

234live and work here

1,336work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oroville East goes to work

Oroville4.1 mi away

33%852

Chico25.5 mi away

10%267

Oroville East (in town)right here

9%234

Sacramento64 mi away

2%65

Yuba City26.5 mi away

2%59

Gridley14.6 mi away

2%46

South Oroville3.4 mi away

1%39

San Francisco147.9 mi away

1%34

Roseville50.7 mi away

1%31

Redding87.8 mi away

1%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%961

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

How far

How far Oroville East commutes

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

47%

14%

11%

27%

47%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oroville East is a commuter town

0.60jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oroville East are

1,570 jobs are based in Oroville East. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oroville East’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oroville East

1,570 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Oroville East residents hold

2,616 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+21%

Jobs based in Oroville East, 2013 → 2023: 1,299 → 1,570. 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.