English Settlement School · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Fair Oaks commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
For 23% of workers, the job is at home, against 19% across Oregon. There are 10 jobs in Fair Oaks, against 66 working residents. Hardly any work in Fair Oaks itself; outside it, Roseburg draws the most (38%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Fair Oaks
On a workday 66 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Fair Oaks on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
The towns that employ Fair Oaks’ residents
Where Fair Oaks clocks in
38% of workers
20% of workers
8% 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.
A place that makes things: 50% of Fair Oaks’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fair Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 10. 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 Fair Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Fair Oaks
of Fair Oaks workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 20 commuters (the 23% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Fair Oaks
About 17% 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 Fair Oaks: questions
What is the median household income in Fair Oaks?
$67,422 (±$55,005) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fair Oaks?
30.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fair Oaks work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roseburg (38%, 15 mi), Sutherlin (20%, 6 mi), Eugene (8%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fair Oaks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fair Oaks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fair Oaks
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.