Most of Falcon Heights commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Falcon Heights has 37 jobs, against 259 working residents. Hardly any stay in Falcon Heights for work; outside it, Klamath Falls is the main destination (41%, 6 miles). Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, 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
Work in Falcon Heights: the figures worth knowing
Falcon Heights and Klamath Falls trade workers both ways
Klamath Falls is the top workplace for Falcon Heights residents (41%) and also where the most people who work in Falcon Heights come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Falcon Heights is a place people come home to
There are 37 jobs based in Falcon Heights, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Falcon Heights has about 620 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Falcon Heights residents work close to home
70% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 259 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The towns that employ Falcon Heights’ residents
Where Falcon Heights clocks in
41% 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.
Who leaves Falcon Heights for work, and who comes in
On a workday 259 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 620 people are in Falcon Heights 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.
Half of Falcon Heights commutes less than 8 miles
About 23% 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.
62% of the jobs in Falcon Heights make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Falcon Heights, 2013 → 2023: 68 → 37. 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 Falcon Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Falcon Heights: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Falcon Heights workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 476 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.
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 Falcon Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Falcon Heights?
$61,773 (±$10,576) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Falcon Heights?
5.7%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Falcon Heights?
17 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Falcon Heights work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Klamath Falls (41%, 6 mi), Altamont (15%, 5 mi), Bend (3%, 135 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Falcon Heights 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 Falcon Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Falcon Heights
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.