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Table 2.1 Top 20 cities with at least 50,000 population in Southern California based on jobs/workers ratio in 2016
from Irvine at 50: From a Planned Community to a Growing Job Center
by University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology
MFI Report: Irvine at 50: From a Planned Community to a Growing Job Center December 2021
Table 2.1. Top 20 cities with at least 50,000 population in Southern California based on jobs/workers ratio in 2016
Jobs/ workers ratio
1980 1990 2000 2010 2016 Population 2016
1 Irvine 2 Santa Monica 3 Burbank 4 Newport Beach 5 Palm Desert 6 Pasadena 7 Cerritos 8 Torrance 9 Orange 10 Ontario 11 Chino 12 Costa Mesa 13 San Bernardino 14 Carson 15 Carlsbad 1.90 2.19 2.47 2.23 2.14 256,877 1.17 1.66 1.93 2.07 2.07 92,495 1.64 1.80 1.75 1.82 1.91 104,765 1.42 1.64 1.78 1.77 1.85 86,793 - 1.60 1.63 1.78 1.85 51,675 1.28 1.53 1.64 1.77 1.65 141,231 0.72 1.11 1.41 1.53 1.59 50,145 1.05 1.36 1.49 1.54 1.55 147,190 1.21 1.53 1.46 1.44 1.51 140,289 0.68 0.96 1.37 1.48 1.46 171,041 0.73 1.15 1.26 1.42 1.41 85,609 1.05 1.36 1.45 1.44 1.41 112,930 1.35 1.48 1.30 1.32 1.39 215,252 1.02 1.41 1.40 1.43 1.34 92,927 0.85 0.98 1.32 1.23 1.33 113,147
16 Redlands 0.67 0.78 0.96 1.18 1.30 70,765
17 San Diego
1.07 1.21 1.25 1.27 1.28 1,390,966 18 Gardena 1.33 1.31 1.27 1.23 1.17 60,096 19 San Buenaventura (Ventura) 0.92 1.16 1.11 1.10 1.16 110,153 20 Riverside 0.94 1.08 1.12 1.16 1.15 321,570
Table 2.1 shows twenty cities (with at least 50,000 population) showing the highest jobs/workers ratios in Southern California (including the following seven counties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties). Irvine has had the highest jobs/workers ratio in the entire Southern California region over this whole time period (of cities with at least 50,000 population). In 1980, Irvine had almost twice as many jobs as workers (with a ratio of 1.9). The second highest ratio was in Burbank (1.64). The large growth in jobs in the 1980s for Irvine increased the ratio to 2.19 in 1990, and it increased further yet to nearly 2.5 in 2000. In the 2000s and 2010s the ratio slid a bit in Irvine, to around 2.2, but still remained the highest in the region.
