'Job Center' pockets of Los Angeles....? (Long Beach, Anaheim: attorneys, live in, law)

[Tiger Beer]

I was just reading a thread about someone moving to Long Beach, but another poster mentioning that it's often a far commute to the 'job centers'.

Which made me think...if someone were to list 4-5 areas where most jobs are usually located, what 4-5 areas would those be?

The entire L.A. metro included...

[mayorhaggar]

Century City, downtown LA, parts of Irvine and Anaheim and the city of Orange. But generally jobs can be really spaced out.

[ccm123]

Downtown LA, Pasadena, El Segundo, Century City, Woodland Hills/SF Valley and Long Beach. But, I don't believe there is really one "job center" in LA. Lucky people live close to their jobs. The less fortunate ones live on one side of town and commute in. It accounts for the hectic traffic conditions seen on the freeways and roads during commute hours.

[DynamoLA]

You just have to look at sigalert.com in the morning to see where the job centers are:

Santa Monica
Century City
Downtown L.A.
Irvine
Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena

I think those are my top 5, but I'm sure there are more...

[hockfan86]

^^^I would say this is a definitive list right here.

[EscapeCalifornia]

In a region as huge as SoCal, there's jobs everywhere, not just in a half dozen spots.

[disgruntled la native]

Originally Posted by DynamoLA

You just have to look at sigalert.com in the morning to see where the job centers are:

Santa Monica
Century City
Downtown L.A.
Irvine
Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena

I think those are my top 5, but I'm sure there are more...

Pretty accurate. Santa Monica didn't become a hotspot for offices until recently, but now it's comparable to Downtown LA (which has always been the case, in the 90s traffic was bad going eastbound on the 10 in the AM because of all the westsiders who worked there) and Century City.

[HarryKerryJr]

Uh, Long Beach is a job center itself. Frankly, there are countless "job centers" in the Metro LA area. However, certain industries or professions are often located in certain "job centers." For example, Downtown and Century City/Beverly Hills is attorney and financial services HEAVEN. There is a never ending number of law firms one can skip around to in downtown LA alone. To a much smaller scale, there is a concentration of attorneys in Newport Beach, but not on the scale of DTLA, but it is still a "job center" with other corporate offices and some financial services opportunities.

Pasadena has Parsons and Jacobs for a fair number of Engineering related jobs. The South Bay is also good for engineers and other designers and anyone in the petroleum industry. For the most part, a fair number of engineers still live in the Mid-Cites/Gateway area of LA County because it is close enough to their "job center."

All the other places mentioned in the previous posts are the best know "job centers" but depending upon your

[kttam186290]

There is a term for job centers in large metropolitan areas, they call them "boomburbs", which is basically used to describe a suburban city or area of a metropolitan area with a hub of economic activity that helps to support the economies of the areas immediately adjacent to it. A "boomburb" is more or less a job center for a specific area in the Metropolitan region.

In Orange County, Irvine is definitely a "boomburb" as it is full of corporate offices that employ people from all over Orange County and even the Inland Empire. Anaheim is another "boomburb" to a lesser extent.

In L.A. County, it would be places like the Westwood-Century City corridor in West LA, Long Beach along the water front, Woodland Hills and the Warner Center out in the Valley, Burbank-Glendale-Universal City with all of the media and related production there. Santa Clarita is sort of emerging as a boomburb in the tech, aerospace and TV production industries. Lancaster is a boomburb in the health care and aerospace industries.

In Ventura County, Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks are the "boomburbs" where most of the better paying jobs are.

[mayorhaggar]

Downtown Long Beach is very small and doesn't have that many jobs available and they often don't pay that well. A lot of people in LB work in downtown LA or the OC and live in LB because of the cheap rents and proximity to the beach.