Work & commute · Valley Springs

Work & commute in Valley Springs, CA

Most working residents leave Valley Springs for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Stockton (9%), San Andreas (5%) and Sacramento (4%). Half commute less than 43 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 431 working residents

Typical commute

43 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 415 Valley Springs residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 602 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Valley Springs.

415live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

602work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Valley Springs goes to work

Stockton30.1 mi away

9%39

San Andreas8.3 mi away

5%23

Sacramento43.5 mi away

4%19

Valley Springs (in town)right here

4%16

San Jose82 mi away

3%14

Oakland81.6 mi away

3%11

San Francisco124.4 mi away

2%10

Angels17 mi away

2%8

Lodi25.7 mi away

2%8

Manteca35 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

64%275

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

How far

How far Valley Springs commutes

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

14%

11%

34%

41%

14%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

34%25–50 mi

41%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Valley Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.43jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.43 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Valley Springs are

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

Jobs based in Valley Springs

618 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities45%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Valley Springs residents hold

431 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+90%

Jobs based in Valley Springs, 2013 → 2023: 325 → 618. 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.