Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.0A job hub: Enterprise has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 1,239 people come in to work
For jobs and income Enterprise is better than 14% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (A). 1,667 jobs are based in Enterprise for 883 working residents. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 19.6 in Portland.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Enterprise at work: what stands out
Enterprise is where the jobs are
Enterprise has 1,667 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Enterprise are quick
The average trip to work takes 8 minutes, against 23 across Oregon. That’s about 115 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oregon worker. Time on the road ↓
Enterprise has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Enterprise went from 1,134 in 2013 to 1,667 in 2023, +47%. The jobs ↓
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 883 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Enterprise
The poverty rate holds Enterprise’s grade up (10.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Enterprise could be anywhere from D− to B.
The workday shuffle in and out of Enterprise
On a workday 455 residents head out to work and 428 work right here.
About 2,900 people are in Enterprise on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Each way, about 8 minutes from Enterprise
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Enterprise workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 910 commuters (the 7% 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.
The kinds of work in Enterprise
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Enterprise, 2013 → 2023: 1,134 → 1,667. 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 Enterprise’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Enterprise: where workers come from
Where Enterprise clocks in
9% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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 distance from Enterprise to work
About 25% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Enterprise
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 978 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 71% 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 10.5% of Enterprise households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Enterprise’s commuters take a bus or train.
Enterprise is 4,172nd of 5,148 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 190 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 233 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,170 | Rouses Point NY | 2,179 | $46K | 11.9% | 5.3% | 11% | D |
| 4,171 | Mill City OR | 2,125 | $69K | 17.5% | 8.2% | 7% | D |
| 4,172 | Enterprise OR | 2,103 | $58K | 10.2% | 7.1% | 48% | D |
| 4,173 | Greenfield TN | 2,020 | $47K | 13.5% | 2.4% | 13% | D |
| 4,174 | Archer City TX | 1,627 | $53K | 13.8% | 0.0% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Enterprise, 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 Enterprise: questions
What is the median household income in Enterprise?
$58,393 (±$12,146) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Enterprise?
10.2%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Enterprise?
8 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Enterprise work?
48% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Joseph (9%, 6 mi), Wallowa (3%, 16 mi), La Grande (3%, 40 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Enterprise walkable?
Enterprise is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.2 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Enterprise without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Enterprise, from the people who make the trip.
More of Enterprise
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.