Photo: Orygun · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Eagle Crest commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 34% of workers, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole. Eagle Crest has 200 jobs, and 918 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Eagle Crest is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Eagle Crest
Eagle Crest is a place people come home to
There are 200 jobs based in Eagle Crest, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Eagle Crest has about 2,000 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Eagle Crest than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Eagle Crest fell from 364 in 2013 to 200 in 2023, −45%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Eagle Crest
35% of Eagle Crest workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. 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 918 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Eagle Crest earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Eagle Crest’s grade up ($102,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Eagle Crest’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, Eagle Crest could be anywhere from C to B+.
Eagle Crest quiets down on a workday
On a workday 895 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 177 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Eagle Crest on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
71% of the jobs in Eagle Crest pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eagle Crest, 2013 → 2023: 364 → 200. 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 Eagle Crest’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Eagle Crest, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eagle Crest workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 479 commuters (the 34% 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.
26% of working residents work in Bend
Where Eagle Crest clocks in
26% of workers
12% 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.
Miles to work from Eagle Crest
About 35% 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.
The commute in Eagle Crest is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.2% 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 731 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). 1.4% of Eagle Crest households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Eagle Crest’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Eagle Crest is 1,909th of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 203 | Hubbard OR | 3,399 | $102K | 3.6% | 1.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 326 | Millersburg OR | 3,583 | $125K | 5.1% | 1.5% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 741 | North Plains OR | 3,414 | $118K | 2.9% | 6.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,907 | West Rutland VT | 2,200 | $61K | 6.8% | 1.3% | 7% | B |
| 1,908 | Ross OH | 2,601 | $65K | 11.2% | 3.5% | 3% | B |
| 1,909 | Eagle Crest OR | 2,677 | $103K | 6.5% | 3.6% | 3% | B |
| 1,910 | Gray TN | 2,237 | $70K | 9.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 1,911 | Polk City FL | 3,082 | $80K | 12.2% | 3.1% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Eagle Crest, 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 Eagle Crest: questions
What is the median household income in Eagle Crest?
$102,500 (±$28,415) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eagle Crest?
6.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eagle Crest?
27 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 34% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eagle Crest work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bend (26%, 14 mi), Redmond (12%, 6 mi), Portland (9%, 110 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eagle Crest walkable?
Eagle Crest is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eagle Crest without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eagle Crest, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eagle Crest
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.