Photo: Twelvizm · CC BY-SA 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Neskowin
Neskowin has 50 jobs, against 75 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 73% of workers; Oregon has 19%. Only 1% work in Neskowin; the top destination outside it is Portland (13%, 70 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Neskowin on a workday
On a workday 74 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 49 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.
0.67 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.
Where Neskowin goes to work
Where Neskowin clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
What Neskowin’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Neskowin, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 50. 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 Neskowin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Neskowin
of Neskowin workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 28 commuters (the 73% 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.
The distance from Neskowin to work
About 41% 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 Neskowin: questions
What is the poverty rate in Neskowin?
0.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Neskowin work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (13%, 70 mi), Pacific City (11%, 6 mi), Tillamook (8%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Neskowin 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 Neskowin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Neskowin
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.