La Purísima Mission · Photo: Jsweida · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Mission Hills works elsewhere
Employers in Mission Hills report 149 jobs, and 1,456 of its residents work somewhere. Mission Hills grades B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Mission Hills
Mission Hills is a place people come home to
There are 149 jobs based in Mission Hills, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mission Hills has about 2,600 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Mission Hills and Lompoc trade workers both ways
Lompoc is the top workplace for Mission Hills residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Mission Hills come from (32% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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.
What’s behind Mission Hills’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mission Hills is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #317 of 847 in California. Household income holds Mission Hills’ grade up ($111,974, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mission Hills could be anywhere from C+ to A.
How many people are in Mission Hills by day
On a workday 1,430 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 123 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Mission Hills on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 2024, primary jobs.
20% of working residents work in Lompoc
Where Mission Hills clocks in
20% 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.
In Mission Hills, 30% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mission Hills, 2014 → 2024: 100 → 149. 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 Mission Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Mission Hills spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mission Hills workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,570 commuters (the 10% 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.
Mission Hills’ commute, mile by mile
About 24% 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.
The commute in Mission Hills is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mission Hills is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns, #564 of 847 in California. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across California, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,746 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
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.7% of Mission Hills households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 10% of Mission Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Mission Hills ranks: 1,343rd of 4,264 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 28 | Del Mar CA | 3,858 | $199K | 2.7% | 1.8% | 7% | A+ |
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| 71 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
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| 126 | Emerald Lake Hills CA | 4,235 | $250K | 4.6% | 2.6% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,341 | Fairfield Township PA | 2,806 | $73K | 7.1% | 2.3% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,342 | Union Township PA | 4,851 | $65K | 8.3% | 1.9% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,343 | Mission Hills CA | 3,859 | $112K | 5.4% | 3.8% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,344 | Winchester CA | 4,555 | $79K | 10.3% | 2.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,345 | Dilworth MN | 4,823 | $91K | 15.1% | 2.2% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Mission Hills, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Mission Hills and its neighbors: 20% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mission Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission Hills | – | B+ | B+ | 28 min | $111,974 |
| Lompoc | 20% | C− | A | 28 min | $72,004 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Lompoc. Darker towns draw more of Mission 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 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 Mission Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Mission Hills?
$111,974 (±$25,310) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mission Hills?
5.4%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mission Hills?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mission Hills work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lompoc (20%, 2 mi), Santa Barbara (9%, 46 mi), Santa Maria (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Mission Hills walkable?
Mission Hills is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mission Hills without a car?
10% 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 Mission Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mission Hills
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.