Photo: Binksternet · Public domainWhere Fort Hunter Liggett earns its living
Hardly any stay in Fort Hunter Liggett for work; outside it, King City is the main destination (9%, 16 miles). Fort Hunter Liggett grades B for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 42% of workers, where California as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 89 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 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.
0.00 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Fort Hunter Liggett’s residents
Where Fort Hunter Liggett clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
The daily trip from Fort Hunter Liggett: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Hunter Liggett workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 630 commuters (the 42% 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.
Miles to work from Fort Hunter Liggett
About 53% 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.
Few in Fort Hunter Liggett walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fort Hunter Liggett is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 68.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,094 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
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 Fort Hunter Liggett: questions
How long is the commute from Fort Hunter Liggett?
17 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 42% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Hunter Liggett work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are King City (9%, 16 mi), El Paso de Robles (Paso Robles) (9%, 41 mi), San Jose (4%, 96 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Fort Hunter Liggett walkable?
Fort Hunter Liggett is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 68% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Hunter Liggett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Hunter Liggett
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.