Photo: Greg Dunham from Kirkland, WA, USA · CC BY 2.0A job hub: Oakville has 2.1 jobs per working resident, and 50 people come in to work
Hardly any work in Oakville itself; outside it, Napa draws the most (8%, 11 miles). There are 50 jobs in Oakville for 24 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Oakville
On a workday 24 residents head out to work and none work right 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.
Where the people who work in Oakville live
Where Oakville clocks in
8% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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.
34% of the jobs in Oakville make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oakville, 2014 → 2024: 36 → 50. 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 Oakville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Oakville, by distance
About 17% 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 Oakville: questions
Where do people who live in Oakville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Napa (8%, 11 mi), Santa Rosa (8%, 16 mi), San Anselmo (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oakville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oakville
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.