Oak Run has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any work in Oak Run itself; outside it, Redding draws the most (41%, 20 miles). There are 6 jobs in Oak Run, and 27 of its residents work somewhere. 10% of workers have no commute at all, where California as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Oak Run: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 27 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 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.
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 Oak Run goes to work
Where Oak Run clocks in
41% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Oak Run: what the 6 are
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 Oak Run’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 33 minutes in Oak Run
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak Run workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 118 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.
The commute from Oak Run, by distance
About 19% 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 Oak Run: questions
What is the poverty rate in Oak Run?
43.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak Run?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oak Run work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Redding (41%, 20 mi), Anderson (11%, 22 mi), Sacramento (7%, 150 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Oak Run 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 Oak Run, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oak Run
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.