Los Angeles

City Commute Profile

Los Angeles, CA

Where Los Angeles’s 1,788,602 resident workers go each day — 50.9% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Burbank.

CaliforniaLODES 2023 data
42
Commute Score

42 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Los Angeles at a glance
Employed Residents
1,788,602
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
13.5mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
50.9%
Share working within the area
Work from home
19.5%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Burbank
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Los Angeles proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Los Angeles commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Los Angeles

1,788,602 commutes, one dot at a time

Los Angeles

Where 1,788,602 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Los Angeles, by worker count.

1Los Angeles0.0 mi910,724
2Burbank7.0 mi134,754
3Santa Monica7.5 mi39,651
4Glendale9.0 mi34,629
5Culver City5.6 mi33,029
6Beverly Hills1.7 mi28,380
7Pasadena14.7 mi21,865
8Torrance17.3 mi19,569

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Los Angeles.

1Los Angeles0.0 mi910,724
2Santa Clarita24.4 mi36,099
3Glendale9.0 mi34,748
4Long Beach22.9 mi32,262
5Burbank7.0 mi23,323
6Santa Monica7.5 mi19,703
7Inglewood8.9 mi19,519
8Pasadena14.7 mi18,759

Top industries

The sectors that employ Los Angeles’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance18.4%
EDEducational Services10.0%
AFAccommodation and Food Services8.5%
INInformation8.3%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services8.1%
RTRetail Trade7.1%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.9%
PAPublic Administration5.1%
TRTransportation and Warehousing4.5%

Los Angeles city profile

Who lives in Los Angeles — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
3,857,263
Median age
37.2yrs
Median household income
$81,939
Median home value
$921,200
Median gross rent
$1,933/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
38.5%
Poverty rate
16.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Los Angeles

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

11 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps86%
5 Gbps85%
8 Gbps4%
See all internet providers in Los Angeles

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).