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Home is the office for 10% of workers (Oregon 19%). Donald grades B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 2% work in Donald; the top destination outside it is Portland (13%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Donald: the gist
Donald makes and builds things
79% of the jobs based in Donald are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Donald residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
Jobs in Donald have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Donald went from 300 in 2013 to 628 in 2023, +109%. The jobs ↓
Donald’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Donald is Portland, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (65) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 483 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Donald
On income, poverty and job access, Donald is better than 73% of U.S. towns. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($80,729, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (11.7%) is left out: Donald’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Donald could be anywhere from B− to A.
79% of the jobs in Donald make or build things
628 jobs are based in Donald.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Donald, 2013 → 2023: 300 → 628. 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 Donald’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Donald’s workers travel
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.
Donald fills up on a workday
On a workday 471 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 616 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Donald on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Donald’s working residents head each day
Where Donald clocks in
10% of workers
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.
From Donald, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Donald workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 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.
Driving is how Donald gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Donald is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 535 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 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). 2.0% of Donald households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Donald’s commuters take a bus or train.
Donald places 417th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 223 | Adair Village OR | 1,010 | $99K | 3.6% | 4.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 415 | Germantown IL | 1,379 | $92K | 5.4% | 1.8% | 7% | B+ |
| 416 | Kent City MI | 1,395 | $77K | 6.0% | 2.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 417 | Donald OR | 1,008 | $81K | 7.7% | 11.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 418 | Eden Township OH | 1,328 | $109K | 5.4% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 419 | Lowell WI | 1,157 | $96K | 6.6% | 3.4% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Donald, 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 Donald: questions
What is the median household income in Donald?
$80,729 (±$15,644) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Donald?
7.7%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Donald?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Donald work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (13%, 24 mi), Wilsonville (10%, 7 mi), Tualatin (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Donald walkable?
Donald is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Donald without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Donald, from the people who make the trip.
More of Donald
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.