Rancho Las Palmas · Photo: McGhiever · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Spreckels works elsewhere
125 jobs are based in Spreckels, and 340 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Spreckels; the top destination outside it is Salinas (37%, 5 miles). 0% of workers work from home, where California as a whole has 17%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Spreckels: the figures worth knowing
Spreckels and Salinas trade workers both ways
Salinas is the top workplace for Spreckels residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Spreckels come from (34% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Spreckels workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 17% across California. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 340 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places Spreckels commutes to
Where Spreckels clocks in
37% of workers
6% 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.
Working from home in Spreckels
of Spreckels workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 commuters (the 0% 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 daily flow of workers through Spreckels
On a workday 340 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 125 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Spreckels on a workday afternoon, 100% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spreckels, 2014 → 2024: 91 → 125. 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 Spreckels’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Spreckels goes to work
About 26% 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 Spreckels: questions
What is the poverty rate in Spreckels?
24.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Spreckels work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salinas (37%, 5 mi), Monterey (6%, 13 mi), San Jose (4%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Spreckels 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 Spreckels, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spreckels
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.