Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Myrtle Point have lower incomes than those in 90% of U.S. towns
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.2 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 19.6 in Portland. Below the poverty line: 20.2% of residents, next to 11.9% across Oregon. Jobs and income earn Myrtle Point D−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Myrtle Point: the figures worth knowing
Myrtle Point’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Myrtle Point is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Myrtle Point’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Myrtle Point could be anywhere from D− to D.
How far it is to work from Myrtle Point
About 22% 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.
Myrtle Point on a workday afternoon
On a workday 694 residents head out to work, 137 work right here, and 457 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Myrtle Point on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Coos Bay
Where Myrtle Point clocks in
15% of workers
4% 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.
Inside Myrtle Point’s 594 jobs
594 jobs are based in Myrtle Point.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Myrtle Point, 2013 → 2023: 533 → 594. 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 Myrtle Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Myrtle Point: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Myrtle Point workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 834 commuters (the 8% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Myrtle Point
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Myrtle Point is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Myrtle Point near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 906 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 32% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% 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). 10.0% of Myrtle Point households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Myrtle Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Myrtle Point next to U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 214 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 821 | Dundee OR | 3,193 | $107K | 3.3% | 4.2% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,076 | Hooker OK | 1,706 | $49K | 28.4% | 6.3% | 19% | D− |
| 5,077 | Wilburton OK | 2,308 | $39K | 27.1% | 8.1% | 38% | D− |
| 5,078 | Myrtle Point OR | 2,462 | $48K | 20.2% | 11.8% | 16% | D− |
| 5,079 | Royal City WA | 1,896 | $50K | 35.8% | 18.0% | 16% | D− |
| 5,080 | Pirtleville AZ | 1,939 | $49K | 30.5% | 16.4% | <1% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Myrtle Point, 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 Myrtle Point: questions
What is the median household income in Myrtle Point?
$47,656 (±$6,260) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Myrtle Point?
20.2%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Myrtle Point?
25 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Myrtle Point work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coos Bay (15%, 23 mi), Coquille (10%, 8 mi), Bandon (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Myrtle Point walkable?
Myrtle Point is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Myrtle Point without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Myrtle Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Myrtle Point
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.