Photo: M.O. Stevens · CC BY-SA 3.0Deer Island has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole. Deer Island has 25 jobs, and 160 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Deer Island itself; outside it, Portland draws the most (26%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Deer Island
On a workday 160 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 25 people come in from elsewhere.
About 64 people are in Deer Island on a workday afternoon, 68% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Deer Island goes to work
Where Deer Island clocks in
6% 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 Deer Island: what the 25 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deer Island, 2014 → 2024: 15 → 25. 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 Deer Island’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Deer Island spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deer Island workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 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.
The commute from Deer Island, by distance
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 Deer Island: questions
What is the poverty rate in Deer Island?
9.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deer Island?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Deer Island work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (26%, 29 mi), St. Helens (9%, 6 mi), Hillsboro (6%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Deer Island 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 Deer Island, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deer Island
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.