Photo: Hrystiv · Public domainAt 15.3%, unemployment in Mount Angel is among the highest of any U.S. town
Home is the office for 3% of workers (Oregon 19%). Jobs and income earn Mount Angel C−; getting around on foot earns it B−. About one in ten work in Mount Angel; the top destination outside it is Salem (14%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Mount Angel
Mount Angel trades workers with the towns around it
Mount Angel has about as many jobs (1,256) as working residents (1,321), but they are mostly different people: 1,203 residents leave for work each day while 1,138 people come in. Only 9% of the jobs in Mount Angel are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Few Mount Angel workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Mount Angel makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Mount Angel are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mount Angel residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
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.
Inside Mount Angel’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mount Angel is better than 20% of U.S. towns, #114 of 142 in Oregon. Job access by car holds Mount Angel’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Angel could be anywhere from D to B−.
In and out of Mount Angel on a workday
On a workday 1,203 residents head out to work, 118 work right here, and 1,138 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 2023, primary jobs.
Mount Angel’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Angel workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,330 commuters (the 3% 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 Mount Angel, 35% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,256 jobs are based in Mount Angel.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Angel, 2013 → 2023: 943 → 1,256. 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 Mount Angel’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Mount Angel: the destinations
Where Mount Angel clocks in
14% of workers
7% 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.
How far Mount Angel goes to work
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.
Driving is how Mount Angel gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Angel is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns, #130 of 142 in Oregon. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,366 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, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% 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). 10.6% of Mount Angel households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Angel’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mount Angel is 3,669th of 4,535 U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 244 | Hubbard OR | 3,399 | $102K | 3.6% | 1.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 384 | Millersburg OR | 3,583 | $125K | 5.1% | 1.5% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 822 | North Plains OR | 3,414 | $118K | 2.9% | 6.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,667 | Battle Mountain NV | 3,518 | $82K | 10.1% | 13.2% | 36% | C− |
| 3,668 | Marshville NC | 2,739 | $58K | 14.7% | 10.1% | 4% | C− |
| 3,669 | Mount Angel OR | 3,454 | $62K | 14.0% | 15.3% | 9% | C− |
| 3,670 | Wesleyville PA | 3,112 | $49K | 16.0% | 7.6% | 3% | C− |
| 3,671 | Amboy Township IL | 2,745 | $68K | 11.7% | 9.3% | 14% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Mount Angel, 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 Mount Angel: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Angel?
$62,232 (±$24,303) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Angel?
14.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Angel?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Angel work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (14%, 15 mi), Portland (9%, 33 mi), Woodburn (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Angel walkable?
Mount Angel is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 11.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Angel without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Angel, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Angel
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.