US Naval Air Station Dirigible Hangar B · Photo: Cranialsodomy · CC BY-SA 3.0Fairview has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
9% of workers work from home (Oregon 19%). Fairview has 20 jobs, and 213 of its residents work somewhere. Working residents average 23 minutes each way, about the same as across Oregon.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Fairview
Fairview is a place people come home to
There are 20 jobs based in Fairview, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Fairview has about 330 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fairview and Tillamook trade workers both ways
Tillamook is the top workplace for Fairview residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Fairview come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 213 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The daily flow of workers through Fairview
On a workday 213 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in Fairview on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
25% of working residents work in Tillamook
Where Fairview clocks in
25% of workers
9% 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: 75% of Fairview’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairview, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 20. 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 Fairview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes to work from Fairview
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairview workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 204 commuters (the 9% 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.
Where in the region Fairview works
About 28% 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.
25% of Fairview works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Tillamook. Darker towns draw more of Fairview’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Fairview: questions
What is the median household income in Fairview?
$48,459 (±$12,618) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairview?
1.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairview?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairview work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tillamook (25%, 2 mi), Bay City (9%, 6 mi), Portland (6%, 56 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fairview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairview
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.