Photo: Truebluenyc · CC BY-SA 4.0How Hopland works: jobs, income and commuting
The average commute takes 37 minutes each way, next to 29 for California and 26 for the U.S. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, against 17% across California. Only 3% work in Hopland; the top destination outside it is Ukiah (15%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hopland in brief
Hopland makes and builds things
65% of the jobs based in Hopland are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hopland residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
Hopland and Ukiah trade workers both ways
Ukiah is the top workplace for Hopland residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Hopland come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Hopland
66% of Hopland residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 43% of the jobs based in Hopland pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 229 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
65% of the jobs in Hopland make or build things
307 jobs are based in Hopland.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hopland, 2014 → 2024: 206 → 307. 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 Hopland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Hopland: the destinations
Where Hopland clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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 commute in and out of Hopland
On a workday 222 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 300 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 (1.34 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
A commute of about 37 minutes in Hopland
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hopland workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 363 commuters (the 8% 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 Hopland
About 22% 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 Hopland: questions
What is the median household income in Hopland?
$91,786 (±$22,645) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hopland?
14.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hopland?
37 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hopland work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ukiah (15%, 13 mi), Santa Rosa (9%, 42 mi), Cloverdale (3%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Hopland without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hopland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hopland
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.