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A-12 | City of Pleasanton Housing Needs Assessment <br />Table A-2: Comparison of Residents to Jobs <br />City Percent of Employed Residents <br />that Work in City <br />Percent of Jobs in City Held by <br />Residents <br />Pleasanton 15.2% 8.1% <br />Livermore 21.6% 18.0% <br />Dublin 4.7% 6.8% <br />San Ramon 11.3% 9.6% <br />Walnut Creek 13.0% 6.2% <br />Notes: <br />1 2018 data is pre-COVID-19 pandemic and does not reflect associated work from home arrangements. Data <br />reflecting COVID-19 impacts is not yet available. <br />Source: Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD), OnTheMap, 2018. <br /> <br />Figure A-7 shows the balance when comparing jobs to workers, broken down by different wage <br />groups, offering additional insight into local dynamics. A community may offer employment for <br />relatively low-income workers but have relatively few housing options for those workers - or <br />conversely, it may house residents who are low wage workers but offer few employment <br />opportunities for them. Such relationships may cast extra light on potentially unmet demand for <br />housing in particular price categories. A relative surplus of jobs in relation to residents in a given <br />wage category suggests the need to import those workers, while conversely, surpluses of workers <br />in a wage group relative to jobs means the community will export those workers to other <br />jurisdictions. <br />Such patterns are not inherently undesirable, though over time, sub-regional imbalances may <br />appear. And, as described below, a mismatch of employment to housing generally correlates to <br />more commuting from home to work locations, which may have negative environmental or other <br />consequences, particularly if commutes are lengthy. Pleasanton has more jobs than employed <br />residents at all wage levels (see Figure A-7)5. <br /> <br /> <br />5 The source table is top-coded at $75,000 (i.e., does not report for tiers of wage-levels above $75,000), precluding <br />more fine grained analysis at the higher end of the wage spectrum.