Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Jasper commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Oregon has 19%. 37 jobs are based in Jasper, against 327 working residents. Hardly any stay in Jasper for work; outside it, Eugene is the main destination (34%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jasper and work: the main findings
Jasper is a place people come home to
There are 37 jobs based in Jasper, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Jasper has about 200 people in it, 59% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Jasper and Eugene trade workers both ways
Eugene is the top workplace for Jasper residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Jasper come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Jasper workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 327 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A workday in Jasper: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 327 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 200 people are in Jasper on a workday afternoon, 59% 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.
The towns that employ Jasper’s residents
Where Jasper clocks in
34% of workers
20% 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.
From Jasper, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jasper workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 169 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.
Goods, not services: 51% of the jobs in Jasper
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jasper, 2013 → 2023: 40 → 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 Jasper’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Jasper
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 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 Jasper: questions
What is the median household income in Jasper?
$68,684 (±$56,217) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jasper?
12.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jasper?
30 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jasper work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (34%, 11 mi), Springfield (20%, 6 mi), Portland (3%, 108 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Jasper without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jasper, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jasper
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.