Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Langlois earns its living
Only 2% work in Langlois itself; outside it, Port Orford draws the most (13%, 12 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Oregon as a whole has 19%. Langlois has 49 jobs, against 45 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Langlois on a workday
On a workday 44 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 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.
Out of Langlois to work: where people go
Where Langlois clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 35% of the jobs in Langlois
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Langlois, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 49. 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 Langlois’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Langlois
of Langlois workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 50 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Langlois
About 47% 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 Langlois: questions
What is the median household income in Langlois?
$44,750 (±$37,748) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Langlois?
30.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Langlois work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Port Orford (13%, 12 mi), Grants Pass (11%, 66 mi), Bandon (9%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Langlois without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 25% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Langlois, from the people who make the trip.
More of Langlois
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.