Work & commute · Plumas Lake

Work & commute in Plumas Lake, CA

Most working residents leave Plumas Lake for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Sacramento (21%), Roseville (7%) and Yuba City (6%). Half commute less than 29 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

55 of 3,934 working residents

Typical commute

29 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

43 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 3,879 Plumas Lake residents head out of town to work, 55 work right here, and 209 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Plumas Lake.

3,879live here, work elsewhere

55live and work here

209work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Plumas Lake goes to work

Sacramento28.8 mi away

21%809

Roseville19.3 mi away

7%274

Yuba City11.4 mi away

6%222

Marysville12 mi away

4%170

Rancho Cordova32.7 mi away

3%122

Linda10.1 mi away

2%93

Rocklin20.4 mi away

2%87

West Sacramento29.3 mi away

2%86

Lincoln16 mi away

2%83

Woodland23.6 mi away

2%73

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%1,915

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

How far

How far Plumas Lake commutes

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

14%

25%

42%

19%

14%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

42%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Plumas Lake is a commuter town

0.07jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Plumas Lake are

264 jobs are based in Plumas Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Plumas Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Plumas Lake

264 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)50%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)38%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Plumas Lake residents hold

3,934 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+105%

Jobs based in Plumas Lake, 2013 → 2023: 129 → 264. 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.