Work & commute · Pleasant Hill

Work & commute in Pleasant Hill, CA

Most working residents leave Pleasant Hill for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are San Francisco (12%), Concord (8%) and Walnut Creek (8%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

767 of 13,656 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 12,889 Pleasant Hill residents head out of town to work, 767 work right here, and 12,832 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasant Hill.

12,889live here, work elsewhere

767live and work here

12,832work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasant Hill goes to work

San Francisco54.5 mi away

12%1,629

Concord4.3 mi away

8%1,142

Walnut Creek4.1 mi away

8%1,114

Oakland15.1 mi away

8%1,029

Pleasant Hill (in town)right here

6%767

Martinez3.7 mi away

4%575

San Ramon15.2 mi away

3%359

Berkeley13.6 mi away

2%310

Lafayette5 mi away

2%298

San Jose47.7 mi away

2%274

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%6,159

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

How far

How far Pleasant Hill commutes

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

35%

39%

15%

11%

35%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasant Hill is balanced between jobs and homes

1.00jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasant Hill are

13,599 jobs are based in Pleasant Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pleasant Hill

13,599 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Pleasant Hill residents hold

13,656 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month76%

−3%

Jobs based in Pleasant Hill, 2013 → 2023: 14,050 → 13,599. 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.