Photo: Lbfergus · CC BY-SA 4.0Metolius has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Metolius has 58 jobs, against 442 working residents. For jobs and income Metolius is better than 11% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (B). Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, against 19% across Oregon.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Metolius
Metolius is a place people come home to
There are 58 jobs based in Metolius, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Metolius has about 660 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Metolius and Madras trade workers both ways
Madras is the top workplace for Metolius residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Metolius come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 ↓
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 442 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Metolius
Household income holds Metolius’ grade up ($65,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Metolius’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Metolius could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Who leaves Metolius for work, and who comes in
On a workday 440 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 56 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Metolius on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
24% of working residents work in Madras
Where Metolius clocks in
24% of workers
13% of workers
11% 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.
Metolius’ commute, mile by mile
About 31% 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.
Jobs in Metolius: what the 58 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Metolius, 2013 → 2023: 45 → 58. 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 Metolius’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Metolius spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Metolius workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 423 commuters (the 9% 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.
In Metolius, the car does most of the work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.4% across Oregon.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 465 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 100% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 62% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.5% of Metolius households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Metolius’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Metolius is 2,501st of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 97 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 223 | Adair Village OR | 1,010 | $99K | 3.6% | 4.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,499 | Frankfort MI | 1,280 | $54K | 12.3% | 6.7% | 27% | D |
| 2,500 | Appleton City MO | 1,096 | $49K | 10.9% | 2.4% | 12% | D |
| 2,501 | Metolius OR | 1,039 | $65K | 18.4% | 4.6% | <1% | D |
| 2,502 | Wortham TX | 1,041 | $46K | 12.9% | 5.1% | 5% | D |
| 2,503 | Witt Township IL | 1,007 | $62K | 16.8% | 3.7% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Metolius, 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 Metolius: questions
What is the median household income in Metolius?
$65,000 (±$20,146) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Metolius?
18.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Metolius?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Metolius work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Madras (24%, 5 mi), Redmond (13%, 23 mi), Bend (11%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Metolius walkable?
Metolius is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 11.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Metolius without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 100% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Metolius, from the people who make the trip.
More of Metolius
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.