Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and the daily commute in Glide
11% of workers work from home (Oregon 19%). Glide grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. About one in seven stay in Glide for work; outside it, Roseburg is the main destination (29%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Glide: the gist
Glide makes and builds things
68% of the jobs based in Glide are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Glide residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Glide and Roseburg trade workers both ways
Roseburg is the top workplace for Glide residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Glide come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. 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 537 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Glide
On income, poverty and job access, Glide is better than 41% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Glide’s grade up (5.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.0%) is left out: Glide’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Glide could be anywhere from C− to B.
Glide works in goods: 68% of its jobs
714 jobs are based in Glide.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glide, 2013 → 2023: 644 → 714. 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 Glide’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Glide ends
Where Glide clocks in
29% of workers
4% 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 commute from Glide, by distance
About 34% 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.
Who leaves Glide for work, and who comes in
On a workday 464 residents head out to work, 73 work right here, and 641 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Glide on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Glide: about 31 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glide workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 668 commuters (the 11% 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.
Driving is how Glide gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glide is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 748 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.9% of Glide households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glide’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Glide ranks: 2,746th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 238 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,744 | Victory NY | 1,688 | $71K | 6.3% | 9.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,745 | Farmington WI | 2,122 | $71K | 9.9% | 3.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,746 | Glide OR | 1,823 | $74K | 5.2% | 7.0% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,747 | New Chicago IN | 1,988 | $57K | 16.7% | 4.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,748 | Minneota MN | 1,357 | $74K | 6.7% | 2.6% | 8% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Glide, 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 Glide: questions
What is the median household income in Glide?
$73,727 (±$24,145) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glide?
5.2%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glide?
31 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glide work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roseburg (29%, 15 mi), Eugene (4%, 53 mi), Medford (3%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glide walkable?
Glide is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glide without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glide, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glide
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.