Most of Netarts commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Only 3% stay in Netarts for work; outside it, Tillamook is the main destination (23%, 5 miles). 106 jobs are based in Netarts, against 367 working residents. For jobs and income Netarts is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (D−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Netarts in brief
Netarts and Tillamook trade workers both ways
Tillamook is the top workplace for Netarts residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Netarts come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
43% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Netarts is a place people come home to
There are 106 jobs based in Netarts, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Netarts has about 760 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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; with 367 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Netarts gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Netarts’ grade up ($79,866, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Netarts’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Netarts could be anywhere from D to B.
The towns that employ Netarts’ residents
Where Netarts clocks in
23% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Netarts
About 43% 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.
How a workday changes Netarts
On a workday 356 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 95 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Netarts on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The kinds of work in Netarts
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Netarts, 2013 → 2023: 73 → 106. 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 Netarts’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Netarts: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Netarts workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 391 commuters (the 13% 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.
For most of Netarts, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 448 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 1.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 59% 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). 0.0% of Netarts households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Netarts’ commuters take a bus or train.
Netarts places 1,763rd of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 223 | Adair Village OR | 1,010 | $99K | 3.6% | 4.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,761 | Wausaukee WI | 1,138 | $69K | 7.5% | 3.7% | 4% | C |
| 1,762 | Corvallis MT | 1,227 | $78K | 12.9% | 4.3% | 5% | C |
| 1,763 | Netarts OR | 1,022 | $80K | 9.8% | 0.0% | 3% | C |
| 1,764 | Wayne Township OH | 1,310 | $64K | 10.0% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| 1,765 | Round Lake WI | 1,148 | $62K | 5.8% | 3.3% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Netarts, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
Next door to Netarts
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Netarts workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netarts | – | C | D− | 21 min | $79,866 |
| Oceanside | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oceanside: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Netarts’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Netarts: questions
What is the median household income in Netarts?
$79,866 (±$10,783) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Netarts?
9.8%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Netarts?
21 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Netarts work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tillamook (23%, 5 mi), Portland (11%, 63 mi), Salem (5%, 57 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Netarts walkable?
Netarts is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Netarts without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Netarts, from the people who make the trip.
More of Netarts
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.