Work & commute · Rossmoor

Work & commute in Rossmoor, CA

Most working residents leave Rossmoor for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (11%), Long Beach (11%) and Irvine (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

108 of 4,698 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

27%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,590 Rossmoor residents head out of town to work, 108 work right here, and 1,105 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rossmoor.

4,590live here, work elsewhere

108live and work here

1,105work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rossmoor goes to work

Los Angeles24.8 mi away

11%530

Long Beach5.1 mi away

11%519

Irvine19.3 mi away

5%245

Los Alamitos1.2 mi away

5%231

Seal Beach2.4 mi away

3%151

Huntington Beach7.7 mi away

3%141

Santa Ana11.9 mi away

3%131

Anaheim19 mi away

3%124

Costa Mesa12.9 mi away

3%122

Cypress3.2 mi away

2%116

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%2,388

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

How far

How far Rossmoor commutes

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

40%

41%

11%

40%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rossmoor is a commuter town

0.26jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Rossmoor are

1,213 jobs are based in Rossmoor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Rossmoor’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Rossmoor

1,213 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)86%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Rossmoor residents hold

4,698 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month71%

+50%

Jobs based in Rossmoor, 2013 → 2023: 809 → 1,213. 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.