Work & commute · Santa Paula

Work & commute in Santa Paula, CA

Most working residents leave Santa Paula for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are San Buenaventura (Ventura) (14%), Los Angeles (10%) and Oxnard (9%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

1,744 of 14,879 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,135 Santa Paula residents head out of town to work, 1,744 work right here, and 4,011 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santa Paula.

13,135live here, work elsewhere

1,744live and work here

4,011work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santa Paula goes to work

San Buenaventura (Ventura)12.3 mi away

14%2,031

Santa Paula (in town)right here

12%1,744

Los Angeles44.1 mi away

10%1,562

Oxnard13.4 mi away

9%1,322

Camarillo9.4 mi away

5%712

Thousand Oaks15.7 mi away

3%423

Santa Barbara37.1 mi away

2%269

Fillmore9 mi away

1%204

Santa Clarita32.5 mi away

1%171

Simi Valley19.1 mi away

1%170

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%6,271

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

How far

How far Santa Paula commutes

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

28%

17%

27%

28%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santa Paula is a commuter town

0.39jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Santa Paula are

5,755 jobs are based in Santa Paula. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Santa Paula’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Santa Paula

5,755 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)42%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Santa Paula residents hold

14,879 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+4%

Jobs based in Santa Paula, 2013 → 2023: 5,519 → 5,755. 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.