Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Dillard has 2.4 jobs for every working resident: 267 people commute in to work
There are 268 jobs in Dillard, and 112 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Dillard; the top destination outside it is Roseburg (42%, 9 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Oregon as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Dillard, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 111 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 660 people are in Dillard on a workday afternoon, 31% more 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.
Who travels to work in Dillard, and from where
Where Dillard clocks in
42% of workers
8% of workers
7% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 60% of the jobs in Dillard
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dillard, 2013 → 2023: 178 → 268. 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 Dillard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Dillard: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dillard workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 146 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Dillard
About 29% 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.
Dillard and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Winston (7%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Dillard’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Dillard: questions
What is the poverty rate in Dillard?
53.6%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dillard?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dillard work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roseburg (42%, 9 mi), Eugene (8%, 67 mi), Winston (7%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dillard without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dillard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dillard
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.