Photo: Clotee Pridgen Alloc… · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Sand City has 9.8 jobs per working resident, and 1,338 people come in to work
Only 3% work in Sand City itself; outside it, Monterey draws the most (31%, 2 miles). There are 1,342 jobs in Sand City, against 137 working residents. 10% of workers work from home; California has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Sand City for work, and who comes in
On a workday 133 residents head out to work and 4 work right here.
About 1,500 people are in Sand City on a workday afternoon, 373% more 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.
Where Sand City’s workforce comes from
Where Sand City clocks in
31% of workers
8% 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 kinds of work in Sand City
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sand City, 2013 → 2023: 1,235 → 1,342. 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 Sand City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Sand City, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sand City workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 197 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.
Miles to work from Sand City
About 16% 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.
Bordering towns draw 12% of Sand City’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Seaside. Darker towns draw more of Sand City’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 Sand City: questions
What is the median household income in Sand City?
$77,917 (±$31,871) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sand City?
36.3%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sand City?
21 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sand City work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monterey (31%, 2 mi), Seaside (12%, 2 mi), Salinas (8%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sand City without a car?
2% 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 Sand City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sand City
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.