Photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · CC BY 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Keizer works elsewhere
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 8.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 7.3 in Salem. 7,466 jobs are based in Keizer; 16,146 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Keizer is better than 65% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Keizer and work: the main findings
Keizer and Salem trade workers both ways
Salem is the top workplace for Keizer residents (41%) and also where the most people who work in Keizer come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Keizer’s working residents have a job less than 7 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 25 minutes, longer than the Oregon average of 23. 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.
Where Keizer’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (4.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Keizer could be anywhere from B− to A−.
41% of working residents work in Salem
Where Keizer clocks in
41% 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.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Keizer
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keizer workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15,875 commuters (the 15% 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 many people are in Keizer by day
On a workday 14,874 residents head out to work, 1,272 work right here, and 6,194 people come in from elsewhere.
About 30,000 people are in Keizer on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
What Keizer’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keizer, 2013 → 2023: 5,682 → 7,466. 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 Keizer’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Keizer
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.
In Keizer, walking beats the bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.0% 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 18,590 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 30% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 8.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 92% 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). 5.7% of Keizer households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Keizer’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,135 U.S. towns of 27,000 to 53,000, Keizer comes 610th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 3 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
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| 91 | Lake Oswego OR | 39,722 | $142K | 3.4% | 3.4% | 13% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 156 | Bethany OR | 33,106 | $168K | 4.0% | 4.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 427 | Happy Valley OR | 28,916 | $122K | 7.7% | 4.8% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 608 | Hempfield Township PA | 41,421 | $83K | 7.4% | 4.7% | 16% | B+ |
| 609 | Tooele UT | 42,270 | $96K | 5.9% | 3.8% | 17% | B+ |
| 610 | Keizer OR | 39,140 | $85K | 8.1% | 4.2% | 8% | B+ |
| 611 | Willingboro Township NJ | 32,824 | $98K | 8.0% | 8.2% | 5% | B+ |
| 612 | San Gabriel CA | 38,186 | $90K | 10.6% | 5.9% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,135 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Keizer, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
41% of Keizer works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Salem. Darker towns draw more of Keizer’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Keizer: questions
What is the median household income in Keizer?
$84,813 (±$6,105) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keizer?
8.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keizer?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keizer work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (41%, 5 mi), Portland (7%, 41 mi), Woodburn (2%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Keizer walkable?
Keizer is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 13.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Keizer without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 30% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Keizer, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keizer
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.