Photo: Finetooth · CC BY-SA 3.0About two in five of Hines’ working residents commute to Burns
About one in seven work in Hines; the top destination outside it is Burns (42%, 2 miles). The two grades for Hines are C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 2% of workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Hines: the gist
Commutes from Hines are quick
The average trip to work takes 8 minutes, against 23 across Oregon. That’s about 115 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oregon worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 506 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Hines: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Hines is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hines’ grade up ($78,355, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Hines’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hines could be anywhere from D− to B−.
The towns that employ Hines’ residents
Where Hines clocks in
42% of workers
2% 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.
Commuting from Hines: about 8 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hines workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 728 commuters (the 2% 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.
How far Hines goes to work
About 38% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Hines
On a workday 443 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 410 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.93 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.
The kinds of work in Hines
473 jobs are based in Hines.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hines, 2013 → 2023: 325 → 473. 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 Hines’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Hines: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hines is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of 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 743 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 12% 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% 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). 9.9% of Hines households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hines’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Hines ranks: 4,381st of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 241 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,379 | Mountain Lake Park MD | 2,101 | $61K | 15.2% | 5.7% | 4% | C− |
| 4,380 | Hettinger ND | 1,119 | $63K | 9.6% | 3.6% | 38% | C− |
| 4,381 | Hines OR | 1,610 | $78K | 14.9% | 0.4% | 12% | C− |
| 4,382 | Stuyvesant NY | 1,882 | $66K | 12.6% | 7.3% | 2% | C− |
| 4,383 | Wayne Township PA | 1,497 | $73K | 13.2% | 2.4% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Hines, 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 Hines: questions
What is the median household income in Hines?
$78,355 (±$26,061) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hines?
14.9%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hines?
8 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hines work?
12% work in town.
Is Hines walkable?
Hines is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hines without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hines, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hines
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.