Photo: Roberto J. Galindo · CC BY-SA 4.0Chemult has 6.0 jobs for every working resident: 138 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 67% of workers, against 19% across Oregon. Employers in Chemult report 138 jobs; 23 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Chemult itself; outside it, Bend draws the most (26%, 63 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Chemult’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 23 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 140 people are in Chemult on a workday afternoon, 548% 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.
Who travels to work in Chemult, and from where
Where Chemult clocks in
26% of workers
13% 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.
What Chemult’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Chemult’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Chemult
of Chemult workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7 commuters (the 67% 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 many miles Chemult commutes
About 74% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Chemult workers work outside Oregon. The job records count 13% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Chemult: questions
What is the poverty rate in Chemult?
0.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Chemult work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bend (26%, 63 mi), La Pine (13%, 36 mi), Ketchum (4%, 373 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chemult 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 Chemult, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chemult
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.