Most of Del Dios commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 24% of workers (California 17%). 40 jobs are based in Del Dios for 199 working residents. Hardly any work in Del Dios itself; outside it, San Diego draws the most (39%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Del Dios by day
On a workday 199 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Del Dios on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
Where Del Dios’ working residents head each day
Where Del Dios clocks in
39% of workers
12% of workers
7% 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 Del Dios: what the 40 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Del Dios, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 40. 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 Del Dios’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 39 minutes in Del Dios
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Del Dios workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 171 commuters (the 24% 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.
How far Del Dios goes to work
About 18% 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.
Bordering towns draw 51% of Del Dios’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to San Diego. Darker towns draw more of Del Dios’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 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 Del Dios: questions
What is the poverty rate in Del Dios?
4.2%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Del Dios?
39 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Del Dios work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Diego (39%, 17 mi), Escondido (12%, 5 mi), Carlsbad (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Del Dios 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 Del Dios, from the people who make the trip.
More of Del Dios
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.