Work & commute · Palos Verdes Estates

Work & commute in Palos Verdes Estates, CA

Most working residents leave Palos Verdes Estates for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (25%), Torrance (10%) and El Segundo (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

326 of 6,027 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

26%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,701 Palos Verdes Estates residents head out of town to work, 326 work right here, and 2,164 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palos Verdes Estates.

5,701live here, work elsewhere

326live and work here

2,164work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palos Verdes Estates goes to work

Los Angeles17 mi away

25%1,478

Torrance5.6 mi away

10%583

Palos Verdes Estates (in town)right here

5%326

El Segundo9.4 mi away

4%230

Redondo Beach5.4 mi away

3%173

Long Beach14.8 mi away

3%158

Irvine38.2 mi away

2%135

Santa Monica16.9 mi away

2%103

Carson11.1 mi away

2%98

Burbank29.3 mi away

2%94

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%2,649

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

How far

How far Palos Verdes Estates commutes

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

32%

34%

24%

10%

32%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palos Verdes Estates is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palos Verdes Estates are

2,490 jobs are based in Palos Verdes Estates. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Palos Verdes Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Palos Verdes Estates

2,490 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)92%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Palos Verdes Estates residents hold

6,027 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+19%

Jobs based in Palos Verdes Estates, 2013 → 2023: 2,096 → 2,490. 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.