Photo: Ian Poellet (User:Werewombat) · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Nehalem has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 169 people come in to work
Only 7% work in Nehalem itself; outside it, Manzanita draws the most (9%, 2 miles). Nehalem has 174 jobs for 70 working residents. Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average; the Oregon average is 23, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Nehalem, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 65 residents head out to work and 5 work right here.
About 380 people are in Nehalem on a workday afternoon, 38% more 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.
The daily trip into Nehalem
Where Nehalem clocks in
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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Nehalem
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nehalem, 2013 → 2023: 92 → 174. 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 Nehalem’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way, about the OR average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nehalem workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 94 commuters (the 23% 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.
Half of Nehalem commutes less than 46 miles
About 46% 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 Nehalem: questions
What is the median household income in Nehalem?
$76,071 (±$63,977) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nehalem?
8.9%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nehalem?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nehalem work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manzanita (9%, 2 mi), Tillamook (7%, 18 mi), Portland (7%, 61 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Nehalem without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nehalem, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nehalem
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.