Photo: 46percent · Public domainWith 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Harrisburg works elsewhere
5% of workers work from home, where Oregon as a whole has 19%. There are 612 jobs in Harrisburg, and 1,564 of its residents work somewhere. Harrisburg grades C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Harrisburg’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Harrisburg is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #90 of 142 in Oregon. The poverty rate holds Harrisburg’s grade up (8.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (8.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Harrisburg could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Harrisburg on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,482 residents head out to work, 82 work right here, and 530 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Harrisburg on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Harrisburg: the destinations
Where Harrisburg clocks in
19% 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.
Harrisburg makes things: 29% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harrisburg, 2014 → 2024: 663 → 612. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Harrisburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Harrisburg: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harrisburg workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,539 commuters (the 5% 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.
Half of Harrisburg commutes less than 17 miles
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Harrisburg is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Harrisburg is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns, #136 of 142 in Oregon. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.4% across Oregon.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,626 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). 0.0% of Harrisburg households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Harrisburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Harrisburg places 2,816th of 4,430 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 241 | Hubbard OR | 3,399 | $102K | 3.6% | 1.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 336 | Beavercreek OR | 4,894 | $135K | 4.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 381 | Millersburg OR | 3,583 | $125K | 5.1% | 1.5% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,814 | Cohasset MN | 2,728 | $93K | 6.4% | 8.6% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,815 | Woodlynne NJ | 2,942 | $75K | 19.4% | 11.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,816 | Harrisburg OR | 3,765 | $74K | 8.9% | 8.1% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,817 | Delphi IN | 2,973 | $60K | 9.6% | 4.9% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,818 | Aurora IN | 3,533 | $47K | 18.5% | 1.6% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,430 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Harrisburg, 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 2024, 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 Harrisburg: questions
What is the median household income in Harrisburg?
$73,650 (±$19,542) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harrisburg?
8.9%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harrisburg?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harrisburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (19%, 15 mi), Corvallis (7%, 22 mi), Springfield (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Harrisburg walkable?
Harrisburg is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harrisburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harrisburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harrisburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.