Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domainHidden Hills’ household incomes are among the highest in the country
Jobs and income earn Hidden Hills A; getting around on foot earns it C. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. The poverty rate is 9.5%, next to 12.0% for California as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Hidden Hills: the gist
Hidden Hills and Los Angeles trade workers both ways
Los Angeles is the top workplace for Hidden Hills residents (43%) and also where the most people who work in Hidden Hills come from (43% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Hidden Hills
37% of Hidden Hills workers work from home, against 17% across California. Time on the road ↓
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 628 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Hidden Hills’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hidden Hills is better than 93% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($250,000+, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Hidden Hills’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
The Census reports Hidden Hills’ median household income as $250,000+, the top of its scale; the grade ranks it as tied with the 111 other graded places at that ceiling.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hidden Hills could be anywhere from A− to A+.
43% of working residents work in Los Angeles
Where Hidden Hills clocks in
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.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Hidden Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hidden Hills workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 513 commuters (the 37% 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.
Who commutes out of Hidden Hills, and who commutes in
On a workday 626 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 275 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Hidden Hills on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.44 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 2023, primary jobs.
66% of the jobs in Hidden Hills pay over $3,333 a month
277 jobs are based in Hidden Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hidden Hills, 2013 → 2023: 177 → 277. 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 Hidden Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Hidden Hills
About 16% 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.
Most trips from Hidden Hills start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hidden Hills is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across California.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 818 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 2.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 71% 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
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.5% of Hidden Hills households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hidden Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Hidden Hills is 233rd of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Ladera CA | 1,297 | $236K | 1.5% | 10.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Baywood Park CA | 1,580 | $217K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Irwindale CA | 1,439 | $114K | 4.3% | 6.5% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 231 | Upper Brookville NY | 1,778 | $250K | 0.9% | 5.8% | 1% | A |
| 232 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| 233 | Hidden Hills CA | 1,675 | $250K | 9.5% | 2.5% | <1% | A |
| 234 | Lavallette NJ | 1,869 | $133K | 4.3% | 2.6% | 10% | A |
| 235 | Honey Brook PA | 1,891 | $94K | 2.5% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Hidden Hills, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Work next door: 43% of Hidden Hills’ workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hidden Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden Hills | – | A | C | 25 min | $250,000+ |
| Los Angeles | 43% | B− | A+ | 31 min | $81,939 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Los Angeles. Darker towns draw more of Hidden Hills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Hidden Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Hidden Hills?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hidden Hills?
9.5%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hidden Hills?
25 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 37% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hidden Hills work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Angeles (43%, 18 mi), Calabasas (4%, 2 mi), Burbank (4%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hidden Hills walkable?
Hidden Hills is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hidden Hills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hidden Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hidden Hills
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. 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.