Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0At 0.8%, unemployment in Creswell is lower than in 96% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Creswell is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Creswell are A for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 10% of workers, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Creswell, in brief
Creswell and Eugene trade workers both ways
Eugene is the top workplace for Creswell residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Creswell come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Creswell has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Creswell went from 803 in 2013 to 1,220 in 2023, +52%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Creswell
60% of Creswell residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 40% of the jobs based in Creswell pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 92% leave town for their job. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Creswell earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Creswell is better than 90% of U.S. towns, #9 of 142 in Oregon. Unemployment is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Creswell could be anywhere from A− to A+.
35% of working residents work in Eugene
Where Creswell clocks in
35% of workers
14% 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.
Jobs in Creswell: what the 1,220 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Creswell, 2013 → 2023: 803 → 1,220. 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 Creswell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Creswell by day
On a workday 2,081 residents head out to work, 169 work right here, and 1,051 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Creswell on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.54 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 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Creswell: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Creswell workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,646 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.
The commute from Creswell, by distance
About 22% 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.
Creswell 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, Creswell is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns, #94 of 142 in Oregon. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.6% 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 2,940 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% 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). 5.2% of Creswell households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Creswell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Creswell next to U.S. towns of 3,900 to 7,500: 394th of 3,502 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 325 | Beavercreek OR | 4,894 | $135K | 4.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 392 | Ixonia WI | 5,083 | $89K | 1.9% | 2.1% | 6% | A |
| 393 | Clayton DE | 4,527 | $107K | 5.3% | 1.3% | 2% | A |
| 394 | Creswell OR | 5,566 | $100K | 4.3% | 0.8% | 8% | A |
| 395 | Stow MA | 7,248 | $186K | 5.2% | 4.1% | 4% | A |
| 396 | Mantua Township OH | 4,617 | $78K | 3.4% | 0.6% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 651 | Garden Home-Whitford OR | 6,979 | $98K | 5.9% | 4.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 667 | West Slope OR | 6,582 | $105K | 8.6% | 3.5% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,502 | 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 Creswell, 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 Creswell: questions
What is the median household income in Creswell?
$100,385 (±$14,920) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Creswell?
4.3%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Creswell?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Creswell work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (35%, 11 mi), Springfield (14%, 9 mi), Portland (3%, 113 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Creswell walkable?
Creswell is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Creswell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Creswell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Creswell
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.