Work & commute · Rancho Palos Verdes

Work & commute in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Most working residents leave Rancho Palos Verdes for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (26%), Torrance (9%) and Long Beach (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

766 of 20,057 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 19,291 Rancho Palos Verdes residents head out of town to work, 766 work right here, and 5,077 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rancho Palos Verdes.

19,291live here, work elsewhere

766live and work here

5,077work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rancho Palos Verdes goes to work

Los Angeles19.5 mi away

26%5,233

Torrance6.4 mi away

9%1,767

Long Beach11.9 mi away

5%914

Rancho Palos Verdes (in town)right here

4%766

El Segundo12.3 mi away

4%735

Irvine34.6 mi away

2%469

Redondo Beach7.9 mi away

2%378

Rolling Hills Estates3.5 mi away

2%353

Carson9.9 mi away

2%339

Burbank31.3 mi away

1%286

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%8,817

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

How far

How far Rancho Palos Verdes commutes

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

30%

37%

23%

30%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rancho Palos Verdes is a commuter town

0.29jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Rancho Palos Verdes are

5,843 jobs are based in Rancho Palos Verdes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rancho Palos Verdes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Rancho Palos Verdes

5,843 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Rancho Palos Verdes residents hold

20,057 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month71%

+49%

Jobs based in Rancho Palos Verdes, 2013 → 2023: 3,930 → 5,843. 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.