Elk Creek has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 17% for California as a whole. Elk Creek has 25 jobs, against 64 working residents. Hardly any work in Elk Creek itself; outside it, Willows draws the most (14%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Elk Creek, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 64 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Elk Creek on a workday afternoon, 100% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Elk Creek goes to work
Where Elk Creek clocks in
14% of workers
8% of workers
5% 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.
Most jobs in Elk Creek are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elk Creek, 2014 → 2024: 3 → 25. 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 Elk Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Elk Creek
of Elk Creek workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 commuters (the 0% 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 it is to work from Elk Creek
About 41% 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 2024.
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 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 Elk Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Elk Creek?
$85,313 (±$7,266) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elk Creek?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Elk Creek work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Willows (14%, 19 mi), Orland (8%, 21 mi), Chico (5%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Elk Creek 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 Elk Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elk Creek
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.