Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, income and commuting in El Nido, CA
El Nido has 73 jobs, against 92 working residents. Hardly any work in El Nido; the top destination outside it is Merced (17%, 12 miles). The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average, next to 29 for California and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes El Nido
On a workday 92 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 73 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 (0.79 per resident).
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 El Nido: the destinations
Where El Nido clocks in
17% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
Goods, not services: 70% of the jobs in El Nido
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Nido, 2013 → 2023: 46 → 73. 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 Nido’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes each way, quicker than most of California
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Nido workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 174 commuters (the 13% 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.
Where in the region El Nido works
About 37% 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 Nido: questions
What is the median household income in El Nido?
$55,486 (±$14,204) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Nido?
29.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Nido?
18 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Nido work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Merced (17%, 12 mi), Livingston (4%, 22 mi), Turlock (3%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around El Nido 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 Nido, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Nido
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.