Photo: Richard Bauer ("rustejunk") · CC BY 2.0Earning a living in Long Creek
52 jobs are based in Long Creek, against 55 working residents. Only 7% work in Long Creek; the top destination outside it is John Day (15%, 22 miles). Commuters spend 32 minutes getting to work on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Long Creek, and who commutes in
On a workday 51 residents head out to work, 4 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 (0.95 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Long Creek goes to work
Where Long Creek 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.
The kinds of work in Long Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Long Creek, 2014 → 2024: 42 → 52. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Long Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 32 minutes from Long Creek
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Long Creek workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 47 commuters (the 23% 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.
Where in the region Long Creek works
About 53% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Long Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Long Creek?
$42,614 (±$18,997) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Long Creek?
33.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Long Creek?
32 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Long Creek work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are John Day (15%, 22 mi), Monument (11%, 17 mi), Portland (7%, 182 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Long Creek 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 Long Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Long Creek
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.