Photo: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives · CC BY 4.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Mount Hood works elsewhere
3 jobs are based in Mount Hood for 130 working residents. Hardly any stay in Mount Hood for work; outside it, Hood River is the main destination (19%, 12 miles). 0% of workers have no commute at all, against 19% across Oregon.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Mount Hood: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 130 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 64 people are in Mount Hood on a workday afternoon, 66% 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.
Commuting out of Mount Hood: the destinations
Where Mount Hood clocks in
19% 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.
In Mount Hood, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Hood, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 3. 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 Hood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mount Hood
of Mount Hood workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 0% 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.
Miles to work from Mount Hood
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.
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 Hood: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mount Hood?
0.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mount Hood work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hood River (19%, 12 mi), The Dalles (5%, 20 mi), Portland (5%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Hood 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 Mount Hood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Hood
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.