Photo: Sam Beebe Camera location45° 08′ 14.4″ N, 123° 13′ 52.2″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 45.137333; -123.231167 · CC BY 2.0Amity has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Jobs and income earn Amity B−; getting around on foot earns it B−. 323 jobs are based in Amity; 731 of its residents have a job. 8% of workers have no commute at all, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Amity at work: what stands out
Amity and McMinnville trade workers both ways
McMinnville is the top workplace for Amity residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Amity come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Amity workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 23 across Oregon. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 731 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Amity
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Amity is better than 47% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Amity’s grade up ($87,396, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Amity could be anywhere from C− to A.
Where people from Amity work
Where Amity clocks in
19% of workers
9% 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.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Amity
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Amity workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 912 commuters (the 8% who work from home are left out). Across Oregon: 80% 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.
Who commutes out of Amity, and who commutes in
On a workday 698 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 290 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Amity on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Amity
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Amity, 2013 → 2023: 266 → 323. 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 Amity’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Amity’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Getting around Amity: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Amity is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 995 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Amity households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Amity’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Amity ranks 2,528th of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 207 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 244 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Three Oaks MI | 1,390 | $67K | 9.1% | 5.2% | 7% | B− |
| 2,527 | Hemby Bridge NC | 1,764 | $72K | 19.8% | 2.1% | 1% | B− |
| 2,528 | Amity OR | 1,782 | $87K | 16.7% | 3.8% | 5% | B− |
| 2,529 | Brant Township MI | 1,814 | $75K | 6.3% | 3.6% | 3% | B− |
| 2,530 | Mullett Township MI | 1,233 | $83K | 5.2% | 7.3% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Amity, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
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 Amity: questions
What is the median household income in Amity?
$87,396 (±$23,206) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Amity?
16.7%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Amity?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Amity work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are McMinnville (19%, 7 mi), Salem (9%, 16 mi), Portland (7%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Amity walkable?
Amity is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Amity without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Amity, from the people who make the trip.
More of Amity
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.