Work & commute · Spring Valley Lake

Work & commute in Spring Valley Lake, CA

Most working residents leave Spring Valley Lake for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Victorville (16%), Apple Valley (9%) and Hesperia (7%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

60 of 3,187 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,127 Spring Valley Lake residents head out of town to work, 60 work right here, and 260 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spring Valley Lake.

3,127live here, work elsewhere

60live and work here

260work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spring Valley Lake goes to work

Victorville5.3 mi away

16%525

Apple Valley4.1 mi away

9%290

Hesperia7.4 mi away

7%208

Los Angeles73.1 mi away

6%200

San Bernardino24.6 mi away

5%152

Rancho Cucamonga30.5 mi away

2%66

Ontario37.2 mi away

2%65

Spring Valley Lake (in town)right here

2%60

Riverside39.3 mi away

2%49

Adelanto11.4 mi away

1%47

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%1,525

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

How far

How far Spring Valley Lake commutes

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

35%

25%

36%

35%Under 10 mi

4%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spring Valley Lake is a commuter town

0.10jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Spring Valley Lake are

320 jobs are based in Spring Valley Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spring Valley Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spring Valley Lake

320 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Spring Valley Lake residents hold

3,187 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+9%

Jobs based in Spring Valley Lake, 2013 → 2023: 294 → 320. 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.