Photo: Tedder · CC BY 3.0Household incomes in Clatskanie top those of 68% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 11.1% (Oregon 11.9%). Jobs and income earn Clatskanie C+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Working from home is the commute for 11% of workers, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Clatskanie and work: the main findings
Income, poverty and work: Clatskanie’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Clatskanie is better than 36% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Clatskanie’s grade up ($90,709, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Clatskanie’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, Clatskanie could be anywhere from C to B−.
Where in the region Clatskanie works
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Clatskanie on a workday afternoon
On a workday 620 residents head out to work, 78 work right here, and 604 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
14% of working residents work in Portland
Where Clatskanie clocks in
10% 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 682 jobs based in Clatskanie
682 jobs are based in Clatskanie.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clatskanie, 2014 → 2024: 700 → 682. 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 Clatskanie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Clatskanie takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clatskanie workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 796 commuters (the 11% 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.
For most of Clatskanie, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clatskanie is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Clatskanie 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 897 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 46% 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). 12.1% of Clatskanie households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Clatskanie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Clatskanie places 3,190th of 6,085 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 207 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 244 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,188 | East Union Township PA | 1,734 | $81K | 17.3% | 7.1% | 4% | C+ |
| 3,189 | Southern View IL | 1,540 | $57K | 14.9% | 8.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,190 | Clatskanie OR | 1,779 | $91K | 11.1% | 5.6% | 11% | C+ |
| 3,191 | Salamonie Township IN | 2,267 | $71K | 8.5% | 6.6% | 13% | C+ |
| 3,192 | Pershing Township IN | 1,362 | $73K | 9.8% | 6.7% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Clatskanie, 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 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 Clatskanie: questions
What is the median household income in Clatskanie?
$90,709 (±$2,783) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clatskanie?
11.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clatskanie?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clatskanie work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (14%, 47 mi), Longview (10%, 12 mi), Vancouver (4%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Clatskanie walkable?
Clatskanie is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clatskanie without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clatskanie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clatskanie
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. 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.