San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct · Photo: Los Angeles · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Oak View commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Oak View report 660 jobs for 3,085 working residents. The two grades for Oak View are B for jobs and income and A for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Oak View in brief
Oak View has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Oak View went from 403 in 2013 to 660 in 2023, +64%. The jobs ↓
Oak View is a place people come home to
There are 660 jobs based in Oak View, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Oak View has about 3,700 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Oak View
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Oak View is better than 64% of U.S. towns, #360 of 847 in California. Household income holds Oak View’s grade up ($110,440, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Oak View could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The kinds of work in Oak View
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oak View, 2013 → 2023: 403 → 660. 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 Oak View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Oak View for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,990 residents head out to work, 95 work right here, and 565 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Oak View on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Oak View
About 38% 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.
14% of working residents work in San Buenaventura (Ventura)
Where Oak View clocks in
10% 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 trip from Oak View: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oak View workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,604 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Oak View
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oak View is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns, #201 of 847 in California. Both inputs place Oak View near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,889 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 71% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 30% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 45% 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). 2.8% of Oak View households have no vehicle (California 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Oak View’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Oak View is 1,372nd among 3,370 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Las Flores CA | 5,513 | $212K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Broadmoor CA | 4,586 | $167K | 2.5% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Gold River CA | 7,924 | $175K | 2.9% | 2.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,370 | Dickinson NY | 5,027 | $78K | 8.5% | 3.6% | 11% | B |
| 1,371 | Waterbury VT | 5,434 | $104K | 7.9% | 3.4% | 16% | B |
| 1,372 | Oak View CA | 6,141 | $110K | 8.3% | 4.5% | 3% | B |
| 1,373 | Woods Creek WA | 6,943 | $157K | 9.3% | 4.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,374 | Mount Pleasant Township IL | 4,638 | $74K | 7.0% | 1.8% | 25% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Oak View, the top three, the last and three more from California.
Around Oak View: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Mira Monte (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Oak View workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak View | – | B | A | 27 min | $110,440 |
| Mira Monte | 3% | C | B | 27 min | $72,879 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Oak View’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.
- 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 View: questions
What is the median household income in Oak View?
$110,440 (±$13,006) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oak View?
8.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oak View?
27 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 View work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are San Buenaventura (Ventura) (14%, 10 mi), Los Angeles (11%, 57 mi), Ojai (10%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oak View walkable?
Oak View is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.4 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oak View without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 30% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oak View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oak View
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.