Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Bodega works elsewhere
Bodega has 29 jobs, against 52 working residents. Hardly any stay in Bodega for work; outside it, San Francisco is the main destination (10%, 50 miles). 63% of workers work from home; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Bodega: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 52 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Bodega on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Bodega: the destinations
Where Bodega clocks in
8% 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.
Jobs in Bodega: what the 29 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bodega, 2013 → 2023: 48 → 29. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bodega’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bodega
of Bodega workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 18 commuters (the 63% 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.
Half of Bodega commutes less than 29 miles
About 35% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Bodega: questions
What is the median household income in Bodega?
$90,625 (±$82,478) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bodega?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bodega work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Francisco (10%, 50 mi), Bodega Bay (10%, 3 mi), Sebastopol (8%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bodega without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bodega, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bodega
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.