Photo: M.O. Stevens · Public domainA job hub: Coburg has 3.7 jobs per working resident, and 2,004 people come in to work
Employers in Coburg report 2,031 jobs, and 551 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Coburg A; getting around on foot earns it A. Household incomes here are higher than in 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Coburg: the gist
Coburg fills up on a workday
Coburg has 2,031 jobs, 3.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,900 people are in town, more than double the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Coburg and Eugene trade workers both ways
Eugene is the top workplace for Coburg residents (38%) and also where the most people who work in Coburg come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Coburg has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Coburg went from 1,037 in 2013 to 2,031 in 2023, +96%. 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; with 551 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Coburg’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Coburg is better than 93% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (1.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (8.9%) is left out: Coburg’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, Coburg could be anywhere from A to A+.
In and out of Coburg on a workday
On a workday 524 residents head out to work and 27 work right here.
About 2,900 people are in Coburg on a workday afternoon, 108% 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.
Commuting in to Coburg: where workers come from
Where Coburg clocks in
38% of workers
13% 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.
Coburg works in goods: 33% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coburg, 2013 → 2023: 1,037 → 2,031. 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 Coburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 17 minutes in Coburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coburg workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 570 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Coburg
About 25% 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.
Coburg is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Coburg is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Coburg 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 688 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 98% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 98% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.8% of Coburg households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Coburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Coburg is 213th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 204 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 211 | St. Jacob IL | 1,371 | $112K | 3.0% | 2.4% | 2% | A |
| 212 | Dane WI | 1,119 | $108K | 3.9% | 0.5% | <1% | A |
| 213 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| 214 | Williston Township ND | 1,116 | $250K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 8% | A |
| 215 | Pinewood Estates TX | 1,516 | $158K | 1.1% | 0.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Coburg, 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 Coburg: questions
What is the median household income in Coburg?
$98,000 (±$14,344) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coburg?
1.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coburg?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (38%, 6 mi), Springfield (13%, 7 mi), Portland (4%, 99 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Coburg walkable?
Coburg is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 98% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coburg
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.