Photo: Little Mountain 5 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Butteville works elsewhere
35 jobs are based in Butteville; 121 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Butteville itself; outside it, Portland draws the most (22%, 22 miles). 26% 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
Who leaves Butteville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 120 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Butteville on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
Commuting out of Butteville: the destinations
Where Butteville clocks in
11% of workers
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 Butteville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Butteville, 2014 → 2024: 16 → 35. 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 Butteville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Butteville: 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 Butteville workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 64 commuters (the 26% 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 it is to work from Butteville
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.
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 Butteville: questions
What is the median household income in Butteville?
$120,139 (±$37,504) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Butteville?
0.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Butteville?
18 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Butteville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (22%, 22 mi), Wilsonville (11%, 5 mi), Salem (7%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Butteville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Butteville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Butteville
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.