Photo: Arspickles17 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Agoura Hills have higher incomes than those in 97% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Agoura Hills A−; getting around on foot earns it B. Poverty touches 6.5% of residents, next to 12.0% for California as a whole. 30% of workers work from home; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Agoura Hills at work: what stands out
Agoura Hills trades workers with the towns around it
Agoura Hills has about as many jobs (9,662) as working residents (8,837), but they are mostly different people: 8,272 residents leave for work each day while 9,097 people come in. Only 6% of the jobs in Agoura Hills are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Agoura Hills and Los Angeles trade workers both ways
Los Angeles is the top workplace for Agoura Hills residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Agoura Hills come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Agoura Hills
30% of Agoura Hills workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The four measures behind Agoura Hills’ grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Agoura Hills is better than 84% of U.S. towns, #135 of 847 in California. Household income holds Agoura Hills’ grade up ($171,302, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Agoura Hills could be anywhere from B+ to A.
Who leaves Agoura Hills for work, and who comes in
On a workday 8,272 residents head out to work, 565 work right here, and 9,097 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
33% of working residents work in Los Angeles
Where Agoura Hills clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
From Agoura Hills, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Agoura Hills workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,490 commuters (the 30% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
66% of the jobs in Agoura Hills pay over $3,333 a month
9,662 jobs are based in Agoura Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Agoura Hills, 2014 → 2024: 8,869 → 9,662. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Agoura Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Agoura Hills
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Agoura Hills walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Agoura Hills is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #623 of 847 in California. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,327 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 82% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 75% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.4% of Agoura Hills households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Agoura Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Agoura Hills ranks: 566th of 2,023 U.S. towns of 13,000 to 26,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Orinda CA | 19,507 | $250K | 2.2% | 3.4% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Alamo CA | 14,488 | $250K | 2.1% | 3.6% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Coto de Caza CA | 15,190 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 564 | Camp Springs MD | 22,544 | $120K | 7.2% | 4.7% | 2% | A− |
| 565 | Millbrae CA | 22,869 | $163K | 6.0% | 5.7% | 6% | A− |
| 566 | Agoura Hills CA | 19,243 | $171K | 6.5% | 5.2% | 6% | A− |
| 567 | Chatham IL | 14,579 | $107K | 3.3% | 3.6% | 4% | A− |
| 568 | Wilton NY | 17,643 | $99K | 4.5% | 2.7% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,023 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Agoura Hills, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Work in the towns next to Agoura Hills
The biggest share goes to Westlake Village (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Agoura Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agoura Hills | – | A− | B | 29 min | $171,302 |
| Calabasas | 3% | B+ | B+ | 34 min | $165,288 |
| Westlake Village | 6% | A | A− | 23 min | $179,954 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Agoura Hills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Agoura Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Agoura Hills?
$171,302 (±$16,618) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Agoura Hills?
6.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Agoura Hills?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Agoura Hills work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (33%, 22 mi), Thousand Oaks (9%, 7 mi), Westlake Village (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Agoura Hills walkable?
Agoura Hills is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 12.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Agoura Hills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Agoura Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Agoura Hills
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.