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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
Summary
In summary, the overall commuting flows to Irvine indicate increasing self-sufficiency of Irvine from 1980 to 2016. In particular, currently, over 40% of Irvine residents who are employed have their jobs within the city. Furthermore, the percentage of Irvine jobs that are filled by Irvine residents (the internal trip ratio) rose from 13% in 1980 to 21% in 2016. We also saw a growth in internal Irvine workers by income group over this period. This is evidence that Irvine workers are more and more likely to live in the city as well. Regarding the spatial distributions of commuting workers to Irvine, lower income workers commuting to Irvine are more likely to be concentrated to the north and west of the city, in cities such as Santa Ana, Anaheim, Garden Grove, and Costa Mesa. We found that cities in southern Orange County are more likely to send high income commuters to Irvine rather than low income commuters. These include cities such as Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Hills, and Rancho Santa Margarita. In the next chapter we will summarize what we have learned in this Report, and look to the future for Irvine as a job center.
