Work and Jobs in Palos Verdes, California (CA) Detailed Stats
Occupations, Industries, Unemployment, Workers, Commute
The most common industries in Palos Verdes are: Professional, scientific, technical services (11.7% of civilian employees), Health care (10.1% of civilian employees), Educational services (8.8% of civilian employees). 60.0% of workers are employees of private companies, which is 13.3% less than the rate of 68.0% across the entire state of California.
Most common industries
Most common industries | |||
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Industry | All | Males | Females |
Professional, scientific, and technical services | 11.7% (4,775) | 13.0% (2,995) | 10.0% (1,780) |
Health care | 10.1% (4,144) | 7.7% (1,779) | 13.2% (2,365) |
Educational services | 8.8% (3,589) | 4.0% (927) | 14.9% (2,662) |
Transportation equipment | 5.5% (2,227) | 7.2% (1,662) | 3.2% (565) |
Finance and insurance | 5.0% (2,029) | 5.1% (1,169) | 4.8% (860) |
Accommodation and food services | 4.6% (1,887) | 4.1% (949) | 5.2% (938) |
Real estate and rental and leasing | 4.3% (1,756) | 4.1% (943) | 4.5% (813) |
Public administration | 4.0% (1,639) | 4.4% (1,005) | 3.5% (634) |
Construction | 3.5% (1,415) | 5.0% (1,154) | 1.5% (261) |
Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers | 2.7% (1,088) | 3.4% (788) | 1.7% (300) |
Administrative and support and waste management services | 2.6% (1,043) | 2.3% (523) | 2.9% (520) |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 2.2% (915) | 1.8% (406) | 2.8% (509) |
Computer and electronic products | 2.0% (836) | 2.6% (589) | 1.4% (247) |
Miscellaneous manufacturing | 1.5% (599) | 1.8% (408) | 1.1% (191) |
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations | 1.4% (572) | 1.2% (276) | 1.7% (296) |
Broadcasting and telecommunications | 1.4% (567) | 1.8% (412) | 0.9% (155) |
Social assistance | 1.3% (513) | 0.4% (89) | 2.4% (424) |
Food and beverage stores | 1.3% (512) | 1.3% (304) | 1.2% (208) |
Air transportation | 1.2% (497) | 0.9% (211) | 1.6% (286) |
Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries | 1.2% (475) | 1.4% (315) | 0.9% (160) |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 1.0% (403) | 1.6% (356) | 0.3% (47) |
Repair and maintenance | 1.0% (396) | 1.4% (321) | 0.4% (75) |
Personal and laundry services | 1.0% (390) | 0.8% (186) | 1.1% (204) |
Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.9% (370) | 1.2% (276) | 0.5% (94) |
Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores | 0.9% (354) | 0.6% (148) | 1.2% (206) |
Data processing, libraries, and other information services | 0.8% (345) | 1.0% (222) | 0.7% (123) |
Metal and metal products | 0.8% (337) | 1.1% (257) | 0.4% (80) |
Radio, TV, and computer stores | 0.8% (331) | 0.9% (218) | 0.6% (113) |
Department and other general merchandise stores | 0.8% (309) | 0.5% (120) | 1.1% (189) |
Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers | 0.7% (286) | 0.9% (203) | 0.5% (83) |
Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores | 0.7% (282) | 0.4% (88) | 1.1% (194) |
Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.7% (280) | 0.8% (186) | 0.5% (94) |
Machinery | 0.7% (279) | 1.0% (219) | 0.3% (60) |
Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores | 0.6% (262) | 0.6% (136) | 0.7% (126) |
Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.6% (257) | 0.8% (190) | 0.4% (67) |
Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers | 0.6% (254) | 0.7% (167) | 0.5% (87) |
Truck transportation | 0.6% (252) | 0.9% (204) | 0.3% (48) |
Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers | 0.6% (249) | 0.6% (148) | 0.6% (101) |
Chemicals | 0.5% (216) | 0.5% (109) | 0.6% (107) |
Petroleum and coal products | 0.5% (215) | 0.8% (176) | 0.2% (39) |
Pharmacies and drug stores | 0.5% (214) | 0.3% (80) | 0.7% (134) |
Private households | 0.5% (201) | 0.0% (7) | 1.1% (194) |
Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.5% (187) | 0.6% (148) | 0.2% (39) |
Apparel | 0.4% (182) | 0.3% (67) | 0.6% (115) |
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 0.4% (176) | 0.5% (124) | 0.3% (52) |
Other direct selling establishments | 0.4% (174) | 0.3% (80) | 0.5% (94) |
Utilities | 0.4% (171) | 0.5% (119) | 0.3% (52) |
Electrical equipment, appliances, and components | 0.4% (148) | 0.5% (107) | 0.2% (41) |
Printing and related support activities | 0.4% (145) | 0.4% (103) | 0.2% (42) |
Water transportation | 0.3% (129) | 0.5% (106) | 0.1% (23) |
Apparel, fabrics, and notions merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (126) | 0.3% (79) | 0.3% (47) |
Furniture and related product manufacturing | 0.3% (125) | 0.3% (62) | 0.4% (63) |
Plastics and rubber products | 0.3% (124) | 0.4% (87) | 0.2% (37) |
U. S. Postal service | 0.3% (119) | 0.2% (56) | 0.4% (63) |
Food | 0.3% (114) | 0.3% (63) | 0.3% (51) |
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores | 0.3% (109) | 0.2% (50) | 0.3% (59) |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 0.3% (108) | 0.4% (82) | 0.1% (26) |
Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores | 0.2% (94) | 0.3% (77) | 0.1% (17) |
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses | 0.2% (79) | 0.1% (26) | 0.3% (53) |
Hardware, plumbing and heating equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (78) | 0.3% (66) | 0.1% (12) |
Lumber and other construction materials merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (69) | 0.3% (69) | 0.0% (0) |
Warehousing and storage | 0.1% (58) | 0.2% (41) | 0.1% (17) |
Textile mills and textile products | 0.1% (56) | 0.1% (33) | 0.1% (23) |
Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (56) | 0.1% (20) | 0.2% (36) |
Retail florists | 0.1% (55) | 0.1% (15) | 0.2% (40) |
Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (54) | 0.1% (31) | 0.1% (23) |
Health and personal care, except drug, stores | 0.1% (51) | 0.1% (20) | 0.2% (31) |
Music stores | 0.1% (50) | 0.2% (45) | 0.0% (5) |
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction | 0.1% (45) | 0.2% (39) | 0.0% (6) |
Office supplies and stationery stores | 0.1% (42) | 0.1% (16) | 0.1% (26) |
Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (42) | 0.1% (22) | 0.1% (20) |
Alcoholic beverages merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (39) | 0.1% (28) | 0.1% (11) |
Gasoline stations | 0.1% (34) | 0.1% (24) | 0.1% (10) |
Recyclable material merchant wholesalers | 0.1% (24) | 0.1% (24) | 0.0% (0) |
Unemployment in Palos Verdes
- Unemployment by race in 2000
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 3.2%Males
- 2.5%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 0.3%Males
- 11.8%Females
- Unemployment rate for Asian residents
- 2.2%Males
- 3.5%Females
- Unemployment rate for other race residents
- 4.7%Males
- 6.5%Females
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 3.9%Males
- 5.8%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 5.7%Males
- 4.9%Females
Time leaving home to go to work
<5am:
Palos Verdes: | 1.4% (555) |
California: | 4.2% (606,086) |
5:30am:
Palos Verdes: | 1.8% (735) |
California: | 3.6% (523,209) |
6am:
Palos Verdes: | 2.5% (987) |
California: | 4.8% (692,256) |
6:30am:
Palos Verdes: | 7.5% (2,998) |
California: | 8.4% (1,216,867) |
7am:
Palos Verdes: | 8.8% (3,530) |
California: | 9.4% (1,362,830) |
7:30am:
Palos Verdes: | 15.9% (6,383) |
California: | 13.8% (2,006,950) |
8am:
Palos Verdes: | 15.1% (6,042) |
California: | 13.7% (1,986,831) |
8:30am:
Palos Verdes: | 13.5% (5,409) |
California: | 10.9% (1,577,815) |
9am:
Palos Verdes: | 7.1% (2,851) |
California: | 5.4% (778,152) |
10am:
Palos Verdes: | 8.5% (3,417) |
California: | 6.7% (972,355) |
11am:
Palos Verdes: | 3.7% (1,471) |
California: | 2.9% (414,479) |
12pm:
Palos Verdes: | 1.2% (470) |
California: | 1.3% (189,005) |
4pm:
Palos Verdes: | 4.1% (1,656) |
California: | 6.0% (865,284) |
>4pm:
Palos Verdes: | 3.1% (1,261) |
California: | 5.3% (776,167) |
Travel time to work
Less than 5 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 2.3% (930) |
California: | 2.2% (324,703) |
5 to 9 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 6.9% (2,788) |
California: | 8.8% (1,280,443) |
10 to 14 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 10.7% (4,303) |
California: | 13.3% (1,930,263) |
15 to 19 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 12.3% (4,925) |
California: | 14.9% (2,157,970) |
20 to 24 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 12.2% (4,890) |
California: | 13.8% (2,004,060) |
25 to 29 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 5.3% (2,129) |
California: | 5.4% (782,241) |
30 to 34 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 13.2% (5,295) |
California: | 13.9% (2,025,657) |
35 to 39 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 3.3% (1,333) |
California: | 2.5% (366,487) |
40 to 44 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 5.8% (2,319) |
California: | 3.6% (528,043) |
45 to 59 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 10.5% (4,204) |
California: | 7.9% (1,151,598) |
60 to 89 minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 9.2% (3,683) |
California: | 6.4% (933,123) |
90 or more minutes:
Palos Verdes: | 2.4% (966) |
California: | 3.3% (483,698) |
Means of transportation to work
Drove car alone:
Palos Verdes: | 80.3% (32,221) |
California: | 71.8% (10,432,462) |
Carpooled:
Palos Verdes: | 7.9% (3,156) |
California: | 14.5% (2,113,313) |
Bus or trolley bus:
Palos Verdes: | 1.1% (453) |
California: | 3.8% (549,425) |
Subway or elevated:
Palos Verdes: | 0.0% (20) |
California: | 0.7% (107,711) |
Ferryboat:
Palos Verdes: | 0.1% (51) |
California: | 0.0% (6,831) |
Taxicab:
Palos Verdes: | 0.0% (17) |
California: | 0.1% (9,890) |
Motorcycle:
Palos Verdes: | 0.2% (86) |
California: | 0.2% (36,262) |
Bicycle:
Palos Verdes: | 0.4% (147) |
California: | 0.8% (120,567) |
Walked:
Palos Verdes: | 3.4% (1,363) |
California: | 2.9% (414,581) |
Other means:
Palos Verdes: | 0.6% (251) |
California: | 0.8% (115,064) |
Private vehicle occupancy
Drove alone:
Palos Verdes: | 91.1% (32,221) |
California: | 83.2% (10,432,462) |
In 2 person carpool:
Palos Verdes: | 7.4% (2,609) |
California: | 12.5% (1,564,905) |
In 3 person carpool:
Palos Verdes: | 0.9% (323) |
California: | 2.6% (330,732) |
In 4 person carpool:
Palos Verdes: | 0.3% (94) |
California: | 1.0% (119,364) |
In 5-6 person carpool:
Palos Verdes: | 0.2% (77) |
California: | 0.5% (57,036) |
In 7+ person carpool:
Palos Verdes: | 0.1% (53) |
California: | 0.3% (41,276) |
Class of workers
Employee of private company:
Palos Verdes: | 60.0% (24,519) |
California: | 68.0% (10,009,465) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business:
Palos Verdes: | 7.8% (3,198) |
California: | 2.7% (402,392) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers:
Palos Verdes: | 6.5% (2,658) |
California: | 5.7% (845,536) |
Local government workers:
Palos Verdes: | 8.4% (3,450) |
California: | 8.3% (1,218,764) |
State government workers:
Palos Verdes: | 2.4% (964) |
California: | 4.0% (594,953) |
Federal government workers:
Palos Verdes: | 1.6% (639) |
California: | 2.3% (344,354) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business:
Palos Verdes: | 12.7% (5,202) |
California: | 8.5% (1,249,530) |
Unpaid family workers:
Palos Verdes: | 0.5% (224) |
California: | 0.4% (53,934) |
Employee of private company - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 61.6% (14,145) |
California: | 71.1% (5,716,697) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 10.7% (2,455) |
California: | 3.6% (290,657) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 4.2% (956) |
California: | 3.8% (303,997) |
Local government workers - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 5.6% (1,279) |
California: | 6.2% (495,927) |
State government workers - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 1.6% (361) |
California: | 3.2% (255,434) |
Federal government workers - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 1.6% (365) |
California: | 2.5% (198,555) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 14.5% (3,334) |
California: | 9.5% (760,853) |
Unpaid family workers - Males:
Palos Verdes: | 0.3% (71) |
California: | 0.3% (23,230) |
Employee of private company - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 58.0% (10,374) |
California: | 64.3% (4,292,768) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 4.2% (743) |
California: | 1.7% (111,735) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 9.5% (1,702) |
California: | 8.1% (541,539) |
Local government workers - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 12.1% (2,171) |
California: | 10.8% (722,837) |
State government workers - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 3.4% (603) |
California: | 5.1% (339,519) |
Federal government workers - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 1.5% (274) |
California: | 2.2% (145,799) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 10.4% (1,868) |
California: | 7.3% (488,677) |
Unpaid family workers - Females:
Palos Verdes: | 0.9% (153) |
California: | 0.5% (30,704) |