Photo: McD22 · CC BY 2.0Culver has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
At home: 7% of workers have no commute at all (Oregon 19%). Culver has 220 jobs, and 683 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Culver is better than 51% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Culver stands out on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Culver
Household income holds Culver’s grade up ($91,463, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Culver could be anywhere from C to B+.
Getting to work from Culver takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Culver workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,154 commuters (the 7% 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.
Who leaves Culver for work, and who comes in
On a workday 641 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 178 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Culver on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer 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.
19% of working residents work in Redmond
Where Culver clocks in
19% of workers
16% 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.
The kinds of work in Culver
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Culver, 2013 → 2023: 159 → 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 Culver’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Culver
About 27% 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.
Getting around Culver: mostly by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,244 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 0.6% of Culver households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Culver’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Culver is 2,093rd of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 197 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 232 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,091 | Pinehurst ID | 1,780 | $69K | 7.5% | 1.3% | 8% | B− |
| 2,092 | Hillsboro ND | 1,648 | $81K | 6.9% | 1.7% | 34% | B− |
| 2,093 | Culver OR | 1,689 | $91K | 6.8% | 3.9% | 6% | B− |
| 2,094 | Bishop Township IL | 1,683 | $84K | 8.6% | 3.3% | 7% | B− |
| 2,095 | Greenfield Township IN | 1,363 | $65K | 3.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Culver, 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 Culver: questions
What is the median household income in Culver?
$91,463 (±$7,327) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Culver?
6.8%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Culver?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Culver work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Redmond (19%, 18 mi), Bend (16%, 33 mi), Madras (13%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Culver walkable?
Culver is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Culver without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Culver, from the people who make the trip.
More of Culver
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.