Photo: Tedder · CC BY 3.0Most of Echo commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
83 jobs are based in Echo for 238 working residents. Only 2% stay in Echo for work; outside it, Hermiston is the main destination (17%, 7 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Echo
Echo and Hermiston trade workers both ways
Hermiston is the top workplace for Echo residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Echo come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Echo workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 238 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Echo’s working residents head each day
Where Echo clocks in
17% of workers
7% 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.
The trip to work from Echo: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Echo workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 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.
A workday in Echo: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 233 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 78 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Echo on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Echo, 2013 → 2023: 88 → 83. 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 Echo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Echo
About 24% 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 Echo: questions
What is the median household income in Echo?
$112,639 (±$78,090) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Echo?
7.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Echo?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Echo work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hermiston (17%, 7 mi), Pendleton (7%, 19 mi), Umatilla (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Echo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Echo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Echo
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.