2020 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan

City of Irvine

E CONOMY AND C OMMUTE P ATTERNS

Irvine has a diverse economy of employers from a variety of sectors, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical equipment and devices, computer hardware and software, semiconductors, financial services, automotive design, communications, and education. With a total employment base of 235,100, the top employer in the City is the University of California Irvine, which employs nearly 20,000 people. The second-largest employer is the Irvine Unified School District, with more than 4,700 employees. The next

The University of California Irvine is the largest employer in Irvine.

top three employers are Blizzard Entertainment INC., a video game developer; Broadcom, a designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of semiconductor and infrastructure software products; and Edwards Lifescience Corp., a medical technology company. Table 2-5 shows the top five employers in Irvine in 2018.

Table 2-5: Top Employers in Irvine (2018) 8

EMPLOYER

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL EMPLOYMENT

University of California Irvine Irvine Unified School District Blizzard Entertainment Inc.

19,625

8.3% 2.0% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1%

4,709 2,622 2,604 2,575

Broadcom Corp.

Edwards Lifescience Corp.

Note: Percentage values are rounded to the nearest tenth decimal.

As of 2017, over 93,000 Irvine residents are employed, with approximately 26,272 (28%) of them working within the City. This local workforce accounts for 9.7% of the entire workforce, with the remaining workforce coming from surrounding cities throughout the region. Table 2-6 shows the top five cities that contribute to Irvine’s workforce, which accounts for over 25% of those employed within the City. Table 2-6: Top Five Cities-of- origin for Irvine’s Workforce (2010) 9 CITIES-OF- ORIGIN FOR IRVINE’S WORKFORCE NUMBER PERCENTAGE Irvine 26,272 9.7% Santa Ana 15,313 5.7% Anaheim 11,899 4.4% Los Angeles (City) 10,951 4.1% Huntington Beach 8,177 3.0% Total 72,612 26.9% Note: Percentage values are rounded to the nearest tenth decimal.

While the majority of Irvine’s residents commute outside the city for work, most of those residents (55.7%) travel less than 10 miles to reach their place of employment. Approximately 10% of commuters traveled 50 miles or more, with most of those trips heading into the Los Angeles or San Diego areas. The

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