Work & commute · Winter Gardens

Work & commute in Winter Gardens, CA

Most working residents leave Winter Gardens for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are San Diego (36%), El Cajon (10%) and Santee (4%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

295 of 10,256 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,961 Winter Gardens residents head out of town to work, 295 work right here, and 2,388 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Winter Gardens.

9,961live here, work elsewhere

295live and work here

2,388work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Winter Gardens goes to work

San Diego11.3 mi away

36%3,721

El Cajon3.2 mi away

10%1,074

Santee3.7 mi away

4%459

La Mesa6.9 mi away

3%321

Chula Vista15.4 mi away

3%302

Winter Gardens (in town)right here

3%295

Poway11.8 mi away

3%279

Lakeside1.8 mi away

3%266

Los Angeles118.3 mi away

2%197

Escondido22.1 mi away

2%174

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%3,168

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

How far

How far Winter Gardens commutes

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

34%

45%

16%

34%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Winter Gardens is a commuter town

0.26jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Winter Gardens are

2,683 jobs are based in Winter Gardens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Winter Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Winter Gardens

2,683 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Winter Gardens residents hold

10,256 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+18%

Jobs based in Winter Gardens, 2013 → 2023: 2,275 → 2,683. 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.