El Centro Naval Air Facility has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For 10% of workers, the job is at home, next to 17% for California as a whole. There are 5 jobs in El Centro Naval Air Facility for 91 working residents. Hardly any work in El Centro Naval Air Facility; the top destination outside it is El Centro (14%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
El Centro Naval Air Facility on a workday afternoon
On a workday 91 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 360 people are in El Centro Naval Air Facility on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Out of El Centro Naval Air Facility to work: where people go
Where El Centro Naval Air Facility clocks in
14% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Centro Naval Air Facility, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 5. 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 El Centro Naval Air Facility’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from El Centro Naval Air Facility: about 8 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Centro Naval Air Facility workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 231 commuters (the 10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from El Centro Naval Air Facility
About 56% 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 El Centro Naval Air Facility: questions
What is the median household income in El Centro Naval Air Facility?
$69,063 (±$19,090) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Centro Naval Air Facility?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Centro Naval Air Facility?
8 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Centro Naval Air Facility work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are El Centro (14%, 7 mi), Los Angeles (8%, 178 mi), Yuma (7%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around El Centro Naval Air Facility 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 El Centro Naval Air Facility, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Centro Naval Air Facility
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.