Work & commute · Placerville

Work & commute in Placerville, CA

Most working residents leave Placerville for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Diamond Springs (9%), Sacramento (8%) and El Dorado Hills (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

757 of 4,279 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,522 Placerville residents head out of town to work, 757 work right here, and 7,381 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Placerville.

3,522live here, work elsewhere

757live and work here

7,381work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Placerville goes to work

Placerville (in town)right here

18%757

Diamond Springs3.5 mi away

9%397

Sacramento37.9 mi away

8%325

El Dorado Hills14 mi away

4%166

Folsom19.1 mi away

4%154

Rancho Cordova25.9 mi away

3%143

Cameron Park11 mi away

3%114

Roseville28.3 mi away

2%100

San Francisco139.7 mi away

2%99

Shingle Springs8.7 mi away

2%65

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%1,959

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

How far

How far Placerville commutes

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

35%

16%

22%

26%

35%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Placerville is a job hub

1.90jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Placerville are

8,138 jobs are based in Placerville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Placerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Placerville

8,138 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Placerville residents hold

4,279 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−10%

Jobs based in Placerville, 2013 → 2023: 9,038 → 8,138. 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.