John E. and Christina Paulson House · Photo: Zenhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Coquille has lower household incomes than 76% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Coquille D; getting around on foot earns it A−. Below the poverty line: 19.8% of residents, against 11.9% across Oregon. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 19.6 in Portland.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Coquille
Coquille trades workers with the towns around it
Coquille has about as many jobs (1,450) as working residents (1,509), but they are mostly different people: 1,234 residents leave for work each day while 1,175 people come in. Only 19% of the jobs in Coquille are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Coquille and Coos Bay trade workers both ways
Coos Bay is the top workplace for Coquille residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Coquille come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Coquille
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Coquille is better than 12% of U.S. towns, #127 of 142 in Oregon. Unemployment holds Coquille’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Coquille could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Who leaves Coquille for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,234 residents head out to work, 275 work right here, and 1,175 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 (0.96 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.
17% of working residents work in Coos Bay
Where Coquille clocks in
17% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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.
Coquille is a services town
1,450 jobs are based in Coquille.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coquille, 2013 → 2023: 1,361 → 1,450. 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 Coquille’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes each way for Coquille’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coquille workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,256 commuters (the 10% 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 far Coquille’s workers travel
About 21% 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.
In Coquille, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Coquille is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #92 of 142 in Oregon. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.4% across Oregon.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,394 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 42% 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 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% 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). 2.6% of Coquille households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Coquille’s commuters take a bus or train.
Coquille is 3,648th of 4,084 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 225 | Hubbard OR | 3,399 | $102K | 3.6% | 1.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 318 | Beavercreek OR | 4,894 | $135K | 4.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 360 | Millersburg OR | 3,583 | $125K | 5.1% | 1.5% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,646 | Grant Township MI | 3,034 | $58K | 13.9% | 10.3% | 2% | D |
| 3,647 | Dalzell SC | 2,946 | $47K | 15.3% | 10.8% | 1% | D |
| 3,648 | Coquille OR | 3,943 | $58K | 19.8% | 4.7% | 18% | D |
| 3,649 | Davis OK | 2,836 | $52K | 18.3% | 5.6% | 14% | D |
| 3,650 | South Alamo TX | 3,309 | $34K | 33.3% | 11.8% | <1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,084 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Coquille, 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 Coquille: questions
What is the median household income in Coquille?
$58,490 (±$15,990) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coquille?
19.8%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coquille?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coquille work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coos Bay (17%, 14 mi), North Bend (8%, 16 mi), Bandon (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Coquille walkable?
Coquille is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coquille without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coquille, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coquille
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.