Pigeon Point Lighthouse · Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, income and commuting in Pescadero, CA
Working residents average 29 minutes each way, about the same as across California. Only 5% stay in Pescadero for work; outside it, Redwood City is the main destination (8%, 21 miles). 220 jobs are based in Pescadero, and 201 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Pescadero, in a few figures
Factories, building and farms: 50% of the jobs in Pescadero
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pescadero, 2013 → 2023: 652 → 220. 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 Pescadero’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Pescadero
On a workday 190 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 209 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).
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 Pescadero goes to work
Where Pescadero clocks in
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.
The daily trip from Pescadero: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pescadero workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 388 commuters (the 15% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Pescadero
About 18% 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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Pescadero: questions
What is the median household income in Pescadero?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pescadero?
9.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pescadero?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pescadero work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Redwood City (8%, 21 mi), San Francisco (6%, 37 mi), Palo Alto (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pescadero without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pescadero, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pescadero
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.