With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Bayside Gardens works elsewhere
The two grades for Bayside Gardens are C− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Bayside Gardens has 39 jobs, against 398 working residents. 38% of workers have no commute at all, where Oregon as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Bayside Gardens
Bayside Gardens is a place people come home to
There are 39 jobs based in Bayside Gardens, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bayside Gardens has about 770 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
48% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
A lot of Bayside Gardens works from home
38% of Bayside Gardens workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 398 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Bayside Gardens gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Bayside Gardens’ grade up ($77,727, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (8.9%) is left out: Bayside Gardens’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bayside Gardens could be anywhere from D− to B.
How many people are in Bayside Gardens by day
On a workday 393 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Bayside Gardens on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where in the region Bayside Gardens works
About 48% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily trip from Bayside Gardens: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bayside Gardens workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 258 commuters (the 38% 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.
13% of working residents work in Manzanita
Where Bayside Gardens clocks in
7% 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.
What Bayside Gardens’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bayside Gardens, 2014 → 2024: 45 → 39. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bayside Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Bayside Gardens walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bayside Gardens is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.4% across Oregon.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 418 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 54% 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). 6.7% of Bayside Gardens households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bayside Gardens’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Bayside Gardens comes 2,619th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 121 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 190 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Adair Village OR | 1,010 | $99K | 3.6% | 4.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,617 | Superior Township MI | 1,267 | $73K | 14.1% | 1.3% | 3% | C− |
| 2,618 | Packwaukee WI | 1,497 | $64K | 13.0% | 2.3% | <1% | C− |
| 2,619 | Bayside Gardens OR | 1,128 | $78K | 14.9% | 8.9% | 1% | C− |
| 2,620 | Virginia IL | 1,442 | $59K | 12.7% | 4.1% | 14% | C− |
| 2,621 | Ravenna NE | 1,397 | $64K | 12.6% | 2.1% | 12% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Bayside Gardens, 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 2024, 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 Bayside Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in Bayside Gardens?
$77,727 (±$18,201) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bayside Gardens?
14.9%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bayside Gardens?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 38% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bayside Gardens work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manzanita (13%, 1 mi), Portland (12%, 62 mi), Nehalem (7%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bayside Gardens walkable?
Bayside Gardens is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bayside Gardens without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bayside Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bayside Gardens
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.