Work & commute · Silver Lakes

Work & commute in Silver Lakes, CA

Most working residents leave Silver Lakes for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Los Angeles (8%), Victorville (8%) and San Bernardino (4%). Half commute less than 61 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

105 of 1,812 working residents

Typical commute

61 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

42 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 1,707 Silver Lakes residents head out of town to work, 105 work right here, and 197 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Silver Lakes.

1,707live here, work elsewhere

105live and work here

197work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Silver Lakes goes to work

Los Angeles78.9 mi away

8%143

Victorville15.2 mi away

8%140

Silver Lakes (in town)right here

6%105

San Bernardino42 mi away

4%68

Apple Valley16.7 mi away

3%55

Fort Irwin51 mi away

2%38

San Diego133.1 mi away

2%37

Barstow19.3 mi away

2%36

Long Beach81.6 mi away

2%35

Riverside56 mi away

2%33

Everywhere elseother towns and states

62%1,122

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

How far

How far Silver Lakes commutes

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

17%

13%

61%

8%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

61%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Silver Lakes is a commuter town

0.17jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Silver Lakes are

302 jobs are based in Silver Lakes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Silver Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Silver Lakes

302 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month54%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Silver Lakes residents hold

1,812 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

−36%

Jobs based in Silver Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 472 → 302. 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.