Photo: Orygun · CC BY-SA 4.0Keno has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Jobs and income earn Keno C−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Keno has 89 jobs, against 582 working residents. At home: 11% of workers have no commute at all (Oregon 19%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Keno: the figures worth knowing
Keno is a place people come home to
There are 89 jobs based in Keno, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Keno has about 1,200 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Keno and Klamath Falls trade workers both ways
Klamath Falls is the top workplace for Keno residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Keno come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 582 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Keno
On income, poverty and job access, Keno is better than 22% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Keno’s grade up ($72,877, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.8%) is left out: Keno’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, Keno could be anywhere from D to B−.
How many people are in Keno by day
On a workday 570 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Keno on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
33% of working residents work in Klamath Falls
Where Keno clocks in
33% of workers
5% 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.
How far it is to work from Keno
About 31% 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 kinds of work in Keno
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keno, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 89. 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 Keno’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Keno
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keno workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 569 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.
Few in Keno walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Keno is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 639 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). 17.3% of Keno households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Keno’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Keno ranks: 3,696th of 5,381 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 182 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 214 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,694 | Princeton Township IN | 1,540 | $71K | 16.8% | 2.3% | 16% | C− |
| 3,695 | Ashland NH | 1,943 | $55K | 21.1% | 3.0% | 11% | C− |
| 3,696 | Keno OR | 1,651 | $73K | 11.6% | 7.8% | 2% | C− |
| 3,697 | Centreville MI | 1,374 | $60K | 13.9% | 6.1% | 8% | C− |
| 3,698 | Litchfield MI | 1,394 | $53K | 11.4% | 4.8% | 16% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | 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 Keno, 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 Keno: questions
What is the median household income in Keno?
$72,877 (±$12,178) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keno?
11.6%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keno?
28 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keno work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Klamath Falls (33%, 10 mi), Altamont (9%, 12 mi), Medford (5%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Keno walkable?
Keno is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Keno without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Keno, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keno
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.