Gardiner Historic District · Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Gardiner has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 11 jobs in Gardiner, against 89 working residents. Only 1% work in Gardiner itself; outside it, Reedsport draws the most (25%, 2 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% 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
Who commutes out of Gardiner, and who commutes in
On a workday 88 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 120 people are in Gardiner on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Out of Gardiner to work: where people go
Where Gardiner clocks in
25% of workers
10% of workers
7% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Gardiner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gardiner, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 11. 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 Gardiner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Gardiner
of Gardiner workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 36 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.
Gardiner’s commute, mile by mile
About 40% 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 Gardiner: questions
What is the poverty rate in Gardiner?
0.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Gardiner work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reedsport (25%, 2 mi), Eugene (10%, 54 mi), Florence (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gardiner 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 Gardiner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gardiner
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.