Work & commute · Woodside

Work & commute in Woodside, CA

Most working residents leave Woodside for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are San Francisco (10%), Palo Alto (7%) and San Jose (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

81 of 1,935 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,854 Woodside residents head out of town to work, 81 work right here, and 1,689 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Woodside.

1,854live here, work elsewhere

81live and work here

1,689work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Woodside goes to work

San Francisco47.3 mi away

10%192

Palo Alto6.6 mi away

7%137

San Jose25.9 mi away

6%123

Menlo Park7.3 mi away

6%121

Redwood City6.9 mi away

5%100

Woodside (in town)right here

4%81

Stanford5 mi away

4%81

Mountain View10 mi away

4%80

San Mateo10 mi away

4%75

Sunnyvale13 mi away

3%65

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%880

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

How far

How far Woodside commutes

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

41%

34%

14%

11%

41%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Woodside is balanced between jobs and homes

0.91jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.91 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Woodside are

1,770 jobs are based in Woodside. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Woodside’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Woodside

1,770 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month14%

Over $3,333 a month78%

Jobs Woodside residents hold

1,935 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month11%

Over $3,333 a month82%

−11%

Jobs based in Woodside, 2013 → 2023: 1,990 → 1,770. 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.