Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Lakeside works elsewhere
Lakeside has 140 jobs, and 472 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Lakeside is better than 13% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (A). Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 19.6 in Portland.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Lakeside apart
Inside Lakeside’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Lakeside’s grade up ($65,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Lakeside’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lakeside could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Short hops and long hauls from Lakeside
About 30% 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.
How many people are in Lakeside by day
On a workday 427 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 95 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Lakeside on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
19% of working residents work in Coos Bay
Where Lakeside clocks in
19% of workers
13% 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.
Jobs in Lakeside: what the 140 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lakeside, 2013 → 2023: 87 → 140. 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 Lakeside’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Lakeside
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lakeside workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 559 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.
In Lakeside, walking beats the bus
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 588 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 44% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 44% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% 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). 1.3% of Lakeside households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lakeside’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Lakeside ranks 4,519th of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 238 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,517 | Porter Township PA | 1,863 | $60K | 18.2% | 2.9% | 10% | D |
| 4,518 | Leoti KS | 1,397 | $74K | 18.3% | 0.6% | 43% | D |
| 4,519 | Lakeside OR | 1,863 | $65K | 14.1% | 0.6% | 10% | D |
| 4,520 | Tunkhannock PA | 1,718 | $58K | 21.6% | 5.5% | 9% | D |
| 4,521 | Farwell TX | 1,387 | $57K | 16.3% | 0.0% | 11% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Lakeside, 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 Lakeside: questions
What is the median household income in Lakeside?
$65,375 (±$17,033) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lakeside?
14.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lakeside?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lakeside work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coos Bay (19%, 14 mi), North Bend (13%, 13 mi), Reedsport (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lakeside walkable?
Lakeside is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lakeside without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 44% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lakeside, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lakeside
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.