Photo: Animeicity at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Crescent Lake
Hardly any work in Crescent Lake itself; outside it, Bend draws the most (22%, 49 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 19% across Oregon. Crescent Lake has 23 jobs, and 36 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Crescent Lake: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 36 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 23 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.
0.64 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Out of Crescent Lake to work: where people go
Where Crescent Lake clocks in
22% of workers
14% of workers
8% 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 Crescent Lake’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crescent Lake, 2014 → 2024: 7 → 23. 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 Crescent Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Crescent Lake
of Crescent Lake workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 52 commuters (the 0% 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 Crescent Lake commutes
About 40% 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.
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 Crescent Lake: questions
What is the poverty rate in Crescent Lake?
6.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Crescent Lake work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bend (22%, 49 mi), Sunriver (14%, 36 mi), Gilchrist (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Crescent Lake 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 Crescent Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crescent Lake
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.