Photo: Dima Sergiyenko; Please attribute this image as the work of "DiscoverWithDima." · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Cannon Beach has 2.7 jobs per working resident, and 1,269 people come in to work
1,354 jobs are based in Cannon Beach for 509 working residents. Cannon Beach grades C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 4.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 19.6 in Portland.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Cannon Beach: the gist
Cannon Beach is where the jobs are
Cannon Beach has 1,354 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, 56% more than the 1,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Cannon Beach and Seaside trade workers both ways
Seaside is the top workplace for Cannon Beach residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Cannon Beach come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% 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 ↓
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 509 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Cannon Beach’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Cannon Beach is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cannon Beach’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.0%) is left out: Cannon Beach’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, Cannon Beach could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Cannon Beach on a workday afternoon
On a workday 424 residents head out to work and 85 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Cannon Beach on a workday afternoon, 56% more 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 Cannon Beach’s workers come from
Where Cannon Beach clocks in
28% of workers
4% 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 commute from Cannon Beach, by distance
About 35% 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 Cannon Beach’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cannon Beach, 2013 → 2023: 948 → 1,354. 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 Cannon Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cannon Beach: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cannon Beach workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 541 commuters (the 17% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Cannon Beach
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cannon Beach is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Cannon Beach near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 651 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 31% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 31% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 83% 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). 0.0% of Cannon Beach households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Cannon Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,506th of 5,397: where Cannon Beach ranks among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,504 | Central Square NY | 1,852 | $70K | 15.1% | 4.8% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,505 | St. Paris OH | 1,884 | $58K | 6.5% | 5.9% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,506 | Cannon Beach OR | 1,512 | $69K | 4.5% | 3.0% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,507 | Pinedale WY | 1,997 | $59K | 11.1% | 0.0% | 33% | C+ |
| 2,508 | Jackson Township IN | 1,717 | $67K | 8.9% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | 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 Cannon Beach, 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 Cannon Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Cannon Beach?
$69,375 (±$8,290) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cannon Beach?
4.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cannon Beach?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cannon Beach work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seaside (28%, 7 mi), Portland (9%, 68 mi), Astoria (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cannon Beach walkable?
Cannon Beach is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cannon Beach without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 31% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cannon Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cannon Beach
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.