Photo: M.O. Stevens · CC BY 3.0Households in Cedar Hills earn more than those in 81% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Cedar Hills A; getting around on foot earns it A+. Below the poverty line: 2.3% of residents, where Oregon as a whole has 11.9%. Only 2% work in Cedar Hills itself; outside it, Portland draws the most (34%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cedar Hills at work: what stands out
Jobs in Cedar Hills have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Cedar Hills went from 2,421 in 2013 to 4,960 in 2023, +105%. The jobs ↓
Most Cedar Hills residents work close to home
80% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 5% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Nearly all jobs in Cedar Hills pay over $40,000 a year
85% of the jobs based in Cedar Hills pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Cedar Hills and Portland trade workers both ways
Portland is the top workplace for Cedar Hills residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Cedar Hills come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Cedar Hills makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Cedar Hills are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Cedar Hills residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 14%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Cedar Hills
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cedar Hills is better than 88% of U.S. towns, #11 of 142 in Oregon. The poverty rate holds Cedar Hills’ grade up; unemployment pulls it down (5.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cedar Hills could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Goods jobs make up 38% of work in Cedar Hills
4,960 jobs are based in Cedar Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cedar Hills, 2013 → 2023: 2,421 → 4,960. 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 Cedar Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Cedar Hills
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.
Commuting out of Cedar Hills: the destinations
Where Cedar Hills clocks in
14% of workers
12% 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.
A workday in Cedar Hills: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,837 residents head out to work, 92 work right here, and 4,868 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,400 people are in Cedar Hills on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.26 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.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Cedar Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cedar Hills workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,337 commuters (the 20% 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.
Cedar Hills is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,183 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 49% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 19.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 98% 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). 5.7% of Cedar Hills households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Cedar Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,947 U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,300, Cedar Hills comes 510th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
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| 175 | Bull Mountain OR | 9,865 | $165K | 4.7% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
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| 209 | Oak Hills OR | 11,131 | $127K | 3.4% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 508 | Salem Township MI | 6,786 | $112K | 7.2% | 3.0% | 4% | A |
| 509 | Windsor Township MI | 7,197 | $106K | 2.5% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| 510 | Cedar Hills OR | 8,388 | $106K | 2.3% | 5.0% | 2% | A |
| 511 | Lake Barcroft VA | 10,973 | $141K | 5.6% | 5.0% | 2% | A |
| 512 | Wyomissing PA | 11,285 | $93K | 7.3% | 2.1% | 10% | A |
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| 530 | Rockcreek OR | 9,223 | $107K | 4.3% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
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| 2,947 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Cedar Hills, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
Cedar Hills and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cedar Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Hills | – | A | A+ | 20 min | $105,850 |
| Marlene Village | under 2% | B+ | A | 23 min | $115,417 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cedar Hills’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 Cedar Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Cedar Hills?
$105,850 (±$17,594) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cedar Hills?
2.3%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cedar Hills?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cedar Hills work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (34%, 8 mi), Beaverton (14%, 2 mi), Hillsboro (12%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cedar Hills walkable?
Cedar Hills is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 14.1 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cedar Hills without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 49% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cedar Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cedar Hills
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.