Photo: Orygun · CC BY-SA 4.0Lakeview has lower unemployment (1.0%) than 94% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Lakeview C+; getting around on foot earns it A. 4% of workers work from home; Oregon has 19%. About half work in Lakeview itself; outside it, Klamath Falls draws the most (3%, 73 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lakeview at work: what stands out
Commutes from Lakeview are quick
The average trip to work takes 7 minutes, against 23 across Oregon. That’s about 123 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
34% 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 ↓
Few Lakeview workers work from home
Only 4% 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 861 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Lakeview
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lakeview is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Lakeview’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lakeview could be anywhere from C− to B.
Getting to work from Lakeview takes about 7 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lakeview workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,533 commuters (the 4% 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.
Half of Lakeview commutes less than 1 miles
About 34% 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.
Who works in Lakeview, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 450 residents head out to work, 411 work right here, and 795 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Lakeview on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 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.
Where Lakeview goes to work
Where Lakeview clocks in
3% of workers
3% of workers
1% 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.
What Lakeview’s employers do
1,206 jobs are based in Lakeview.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lakeview, 2013 → 2023: 1,033 → 1,206. 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 Lakeview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lakeview is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lakeview is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 16.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 8.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,589 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.1% of Lakeview households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lakeview’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lakeview is 2,729th of 5,207 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 214 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 821 | Dundee OR | 3,193 | $107K | 3.3% | 4.2% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,727 | Seneca IL | 2,310 | $87K | 22.2% | 4.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,728 | Quogue NY | 1,703 | $90K | 29.5% | 0.0% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,729 | Lakeview OR | 2,419 | $71K | 12.4% | 1.0% | 48% | C+ |
| 2,730 | Highspire PA | 2,725 | $53K | 14.3% | 4.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,731 | Granville Township IL | 2,741 | $71K | 8.8% | 4.7% | 16% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Lakeview, 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 Lakeview: questions
What is the median household income in Lakeview?
$70,900 (±$19,613) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lakeview?
12.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lakeview?
7 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lakeview work?
48% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Klamath Falls (3%, 73 mi), Bend (3%, 138 mi), Boise City (1%, 230 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lakeview walkable?
Lakeview is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 17% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lakeview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lakeview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lakeview
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.