Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Dunes City has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 3% work in Dunes City itself; outside it, Florence draws the most (37%, 6 miles). Dunes City has 166 jobs, against 414 working residents. Jobs and income earn Dunes City C−; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Dunes City in brief
37% of Dunes City works in Florence
152 working residents, 37%, have their main job in Florence, 5.8 miles away. That’s 12 times as many as work in Dunes City itself. The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 414 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Dunes City
On income, poverty and job access, Dunes City is better than 20% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Dunes City’s grade up (10.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.2%) is left out: Dunes City’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, Dunes City could be anywhere from D to C+.
Where Dunes City goes to work
Where Dunes City clocks in
37% of workers
10% 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.
How far it is to work from Dunes City
About 38% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
A workday in Dunes City: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 403 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 155 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Dunes City on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Dunes City works in goods: 71% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dunes City, 2014 → 2024: 30 → 166. 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 Dunes City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Dunes City
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dunes City workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 358 commuters (the 19% 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.
For most of Dunes City, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dunes City is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Dunes City near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 443 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 40% 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). 3.4% of Dunes City households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dunes City’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,072nd of 5,877: where Dunes City ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 204 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,070 | Menahga MN | 1,361 | $58K | 10.1% | 8.5% | 22% | C− |
| 4,071 | Greenwich OH | 1,382 | $68K | 18.5% | 5.5% | 5% | C− |
| 4,072 | Dunes City OR | 1,400 | $65K | 10.1% | 2.2% | 3% | C− |
| 4,073 | Waterford PA | 1,430 | $51K | 16.1% | 12.2% | 9% | C− |
| 4,074 | Youngsville PA | 1,639 | $59K | 12.0% | 12.4% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Dunes City, 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 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 Dunes City: questions
What is the median household income in Dunes City?
$65,313 (±$17,529) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dunes City?
10.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dunes City?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dunes City work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (37%, 6 mi), Eugene (10%, 49 mi), Portland (5%, 133 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Dunes City walkable?
Dunes City is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dunes City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dunes City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dunes City
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. 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.