Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Cheshire commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes, where Oregon has 23 and the U.S. 26. Employers in Cheshire report 18 jobs for 115 working residents. Hardly any work in Cheshire itself; outside it, Eugene draws the most (26%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Cheshire by day
On a workday 115 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Cheshire on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Cheshire’s residents
Where Cheshire clocks in
26% of workers
9% 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.
Cheshire works in goods: 28% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cheshire, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 18. 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 Cheshire’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Cheshire: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cheshire workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 76 commuters (the 19% 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 Cheshire commutes
About 24% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Cheshire: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cheshire?
27.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cheshire?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cheshire work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (26%, 12 mi), Junction City (9%, 4 mi), Springfield (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cheshire 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 Cheshire, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cheshire
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.