Most of Lookout commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
There are 8 jobs in Lookout; 31 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Lookout itself; outside it, Tulelake draws the most (6%, 54 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 17% for California as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Lookout: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 31 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26 people are in Lookout on a workday afternoon, 47% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Lookout’s working residents head each day
Where Lookout clocks in
6% of workers
6% 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.
Lookout makes things: 75% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Lookout’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 14 minutes each way for Lookout’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lookout workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 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 Lookout’s workers travel
About 81% 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 Lookout: questions
What is the median household income in Lookout?
$140,568 (±$113,681) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lookout?
0.0%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lookout?
14 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lookout work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tulelake (6%, 54 mi), Sacramento (6%, 183 mi), Redding (6%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lookout 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 Lookout, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lookout
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.