Photo: CrabTree13 · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Geyserville has 2.4 jobs per working resident, and 858 people come in to work
Home is the office for 28% of workers, next to 17% for California as a whole. Geyserville has 883 jobs for 361 working residents. Only 7% work in Geyserville itself; outside it, Healdsburg draws the most (12%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Geyserville, in brief
Geyserville is where the jobs are
Geyserville has 883 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,200 people are in town, 78% more than the 670 who live here. Day and night ↓
Geyserville makes and builds things
72% of the jobs based in Geyserville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Geyserville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 44%. The jobs ↓
Geyserville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Geyserville went from 557 in 2013 to 883 in 2023, +59%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 361 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The workday shuffle in and out of Geyserville
On a workday 336 residents head out to work and 25 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Geyserville on a workday afternoon, 78% more 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.
72% of the jobs in Geyserville make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Geyserville, 2013 → 2023: 557 → 883. 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 Geyserville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Geyserville live
Where Geyserville clocks in
12% of workers
6% 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.
Geyserville’s commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Geyserville workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 241 commuters (the 28% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Geyserville
About 27% 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 Geyserville: questions
What is the median household income in Geyserville?
$125,093 (±$36,489) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Geyserville?
8.6%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Geyserville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Geyserville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Healdsburg (12%, 7 mi), Santa Rosa (6%, 22 mi), San Francisco (4%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Geyserville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Geyserville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Geyserville
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.