Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Dexter has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
59 jobs are based in Dexter; 334 of its residents have a job. Only 1% work in Dexter itself; outside it, Eugene draws the most (27%, 17 miles). 12% of workers work from home, where Oregon as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Dexter
Dexter and Eugene trade workers both ways
Eugene is the top workplace for Dexter residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Dexter come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Dexter is a place people come home to
There are 59 jobs based in Dexter, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Dexter has about 590 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Dexter workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 28 minutes each way, against 23 across Oregon. Over a year that’s about 215 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 334 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Dexter goes to work
Where Dexter clocks in
27% of workers
18% of workers
5% 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.
A workday in Dexter: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 330 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 590 people are in Dexter on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Getting to work from Dexter takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dexter workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 243 commuters (the 12% 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.
63% of the jobs in Dexter make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dexter, 2013 → 2023: 95 → 59. 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 Dexter’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Dexter
About 28% 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.
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 Dexter: questions
What is the median household income in Dexter?
$38,304 (±$18,196) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dexter?
29.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dexter?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dexter work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (27%, 17 mi), Springfield (18%, 12 mi), Lowell (5%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dexter 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 Dexter, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dexter
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.