Photo: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0Bangor has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
A typical one-way commute lasts 27 minutes, next to 29 for California and 26 for the U.S. There are 44 jobs in Bangor, and 154 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in Bangor itself; outside it, Oroville draws the most (19%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Bangor, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 152 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere.
About 490 people are in Bangor on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Bangor goes to work
Where Bangor clocks in
19% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Bangor is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bangor, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 44. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bangor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Bangor spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bangor workers work from home, vs 17% across California. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 180 commuters (the 20% who work from home are left out). Across California: 79% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Bangor
About 33% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
How Bangor compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Bangor’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bangor: questions
What is the median household income in Bangor?
$120,347 (±$47,528) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $99,122 across California and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bangor?
13.1%, against 12.0% across California and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bangor?
27 minutes each way on average, against 29 across California and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bangor work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oroville (19%, 11 mi), Oroville East (6%, 9 mi), Chico (6%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bangor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bangor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bangor
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.