Work & commute · Spreckels

Work & commute in Spreckels, CA

Most working residents leave Spreckels for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Salinas (36%), Monterey (7%) and San Jose (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 333 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— 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 332 Spreckels residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 132 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spreckels.

332live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

132work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spreckels goes to work

Salinas4.6 mi away

36%121

Monterey13.2 mi away

7%22

San Jose47.3 mi away

5%15

Watsonville21.8 mi away

2%5

Seaside9.5 mi away

2%5

Pleasanton73.2 mi away

2%5

Fresno103.1 mi away

2%5

Gonzales14 mi away

1%4

Santa Clara54.1 mi away

1%4

San Francisco107.8 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%143

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

How far

How far Spreckels commutes

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

47%

18%

28%

47%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spreckels is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Spreckels are

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

Jobs based in Spreckels

133 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Spreckels residents hold

333 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+37%

Jobs based in Spreckels, 2013 → 2023: 97 → 133. 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.