Photo: Otebig · CC BY-SA 3.0Bly has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in Bly report 18 jobs for 59 working residents. Only 5% work in Bly itself; outside it, Klamath Falls draws the most (15%, 39 miles). Poverty touches 22.0% of residents, next to 11.9% for Oregon as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bly on a workday afternoon
On a workday 56 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Bly on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Bly goes to work
Where Bly clocks in
15% of workers
5% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 56% of the jobs in Bly
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bly, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 18. 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 Bly’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Bly
About 32% 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.
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 Bly: questions
What is the median household income in Bly?
$23,214 (±$17,319) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bly?
22.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bly work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Klamath Falls (15%, 39 mi), Altamont (8%, 37 mi), Medford (5%, 92 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bly, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bly
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.