Bunker Hill has lower household incomes than 74% of U.S. towns
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 19.6 in Portland. Below the poverty line: 24.4% of residents, against 11.9% across Oregon. Jobs and income earn Bunker Hill D; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bunker Hill: the gist
Bunker Hill and Coos Bay trade workers both ways
Coos Bay is the top workplace for Bunker Hill residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Bunker Hill come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Bunker Hill are quick
The average trip to work takes 11 minutes, against 23 across Oregon. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oregon worker. Time on the road ↓
Most Bunker Hill residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 516 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Bunker Hill: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Bunker Hill is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Bunker Hill’s grade up ($60,058, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Bunker Hill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bunker Hill could be anywhere from D− to C.
35% of working residents work in Coos Bay
Where Bunker Hill clocks in
35% of workers
14% 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.
The daily trip from Bunker Hill: about 11 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bunker Hill workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 750 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.
How far Bunker Hill goes to work
About 22% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Bunker Hill
On a workday 503 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 429 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Bunker Hill: 442 jobs
442 jobs are based in Bunker Hill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bunker Hill, 2013 → 2023: 337 → 442. 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 Bunker Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Bunker Hill
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bunker Hill is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 8.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 817 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 9.5% of Bunker Hill households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bunker Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bunker Hill is 5,287th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 241 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,285 | Chester CA | 1,759 | $47K | 11.3% | 3.8% | 32% | D |
| 5,286 | Homosassa FL | 1,942 | $52K | 16.6% | 3.7% | 9% | D |
| 5,287 | Bunker Hill OR | 1,626 | $60K | 24.4% | 1.1% | 3% | D |
| 5,288 | Stanberry MO | 1,168 | $63K | 19.0% | 3.8% | 16% | D |
| 5,289 | Tecumseh NE | 1,695 | $45K | 12.8% | 6.3% | 30% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Bunker Hill, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
35% of Bunker Hill works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bunker Hill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunker Hill | – | D | A | 11 min | $60,058 |
| Coos Bay | 35% | D | A | 14 min | $56,524 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Coos Bay. Darker towns draw more of Bunker Hill’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 Bunker Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Bunker Hill?
$60,058 (±$24,997) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bunker Hill?
24.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bunker Hill?
11 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bunker Hill work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coos Bay (35%, 2 mi), North Bend (14%, 4 mi), Roseburg (5%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bunker Hill walkable?
Bunker Hill is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bunker Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bunker Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bunker Hill
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.