Photo: Jsayre64 · Public domainMelrose has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 163 jobs in Melrose; 292 of its residents have a job. Only 1% work in Melrose; the top destination outside it is Roseburg (40%, 6 miles). Home is the office for 39% of workers, where Oregon as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Melrose and work: the main findings
Melrose and Roseburg trade workers both ways
Roseburg is the top workplace for Melrose residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Melrose come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Melrose
39% of Melrose workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Time on the road ↓
Most Melrose residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 292 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Melrose to work: where people go
Where Melrose clocks in
40% of workers
5% 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.
From Melrose, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Melrose workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 294 commuters (the 39% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Melrose
About 27% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Melrose
On a workday 289 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 160 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Melrose on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
Making and building: 36% of jobs based in Melrose
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Melrose, 2013 → 2023: 118 → 163. 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 Melrose’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Melrose: questions
What is the median household income in Melrose?
$77,271 (±$55,706) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Melrose?
7.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Melrose?
20 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 39% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Melrose work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roseburg (40%, 6 mi), Winston (5%, 9 mi), Eugene (5%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Melrose without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Melrose, from the people who make the trip.
More of Melrose
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.