Work & commute · Santa Rosa

Work & commute in Santa Rosa, CA

About one in 3 of Santa Rosa’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Petaluma (6%), Rohnert Park (5%) and San Francisco (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

35%

25,506 of 73,262 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 47,756 Santa Rosa residents head out of town to work, 25,506 work right here, and 41,187 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santa Rosa.

47,756live here, work elsewhere

25,506live and work here

41,187work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santa Rosa goes to work

Santa Rosa (in town)right here

35%25,506

Petaluma14.7 mi away

6%4,240

Rohnert Park6.8 mi away

5%3,370

San Francisco52.7 mi away

4%2,705

Windsor8.7 mi away

3%1,842

Healdsburg14.9 mi away

2%1,193

Sebastopol7.3 mi away

1%1,026

Oakland53.5 mi away

1%900

Larkfield-Wikiup5.3 mi away

1%886

San Rafael33.9 mi away

1%881

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%30,713

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

How far

How far Santa Rosa commutes

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

54%

15%

11%

20%

54%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santa Rosa is balanced between jobs and homes

0.91jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.91 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Santa Rosa are

66,693 jobs are based in Santa Rosa. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Santa Rosa’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Santa Rosa

66,693 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Santa Rosa residents hold

73,262 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+5%

Jobs based in Santa Rosa, 2013 → 2023: 63,482 → 66,693. 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.