Photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · CC BY 4.0Lonerock draws 41 commuters a day, with 3.3 jobs for every working resident
For 11% of workers, the job is at home; Oregon has 19%. 43 jobs are based in Lonerock, against 13 working residents. About one in seven stay in Lonerock for work; outside it, Condon is the main destination (15%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Lonerock on a workday
On a workday 11 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 54 people are in Lonerock on a workday afternoon, 125% more 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.
Who travels to work in Lonerock, and from where
Where Lonerock clocks in
15% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lonerock, 2013 → 2023: 72 → 43. 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 Lonerock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Lonerock
of Lonerock workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 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.
The commute from Lonerock, by distance
About 46% 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 Lonerock: questions
What is the poverty rate in Lonerock?
27.8%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Lonerock work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Condon (15%, 18 mi), Milton-Freewater (8%, 93 mi), Central Point (8%, 241 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lonerock without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lonerock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lonerock
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.