New Hope has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
New Hope has 164 jobs; 500 of its residents have a job. The two grades for New Hope are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 31% of workers, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
New Hope and work: the main findings
New Hope and Grants Pass trade workers both ways
Grants Pass is the top workplace for New Hope residents (42%) and also where the most people who work in New Hope come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in New Hope
31% of New Hope workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 500 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How New Hope earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, New Hope is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Household income holds New Hope’s grade up ($65,000, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: New Hope’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, New Hope could be anywhere from D− to B.
42% of working residents work in Grants Pass
Where New Hope clocks in
42% of workers
10% 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.
Commuting from New Hope: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Hope workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 247 commuters (the 31% 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.
Who leaves New Hope for work, and who comes in
On a workday 495 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 159 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in New Hope 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 2024, primary jobs.
Jobs in New Hope: what the 164 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Hope, 2014 → 2024: 127 → 164. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs New Hope’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region New Hope works
About 21% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from New Hope start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Hope is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 358 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 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% 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). 1.7% of New Hope households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Hope’s commuters take a bus or train.
How New Hope ranks: 3,685th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 161 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 266 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,683 | Indian Creek Township IN | 1,537 | $79K | 33.8% | 15.8% | 1% | D |
| 3,684 | Allen Township MI | 1,612 | $65K | 22.2% | 8.5% | 2% | D |
| 3,685 | New Hope OR | 1,296 | $65K | 19.1% | 0.0% | 1% | D |
| 3,686 | Utica SC | 1,339 | $55K | 26.8% | 12.2% | <1% | D |
| 3,687 | Delevan NY | 1,023 | $64K | 16.7% | 5.4% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 New Hope, 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 2024, 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 New Hope: questions
What is the median household income in New Hope?
$65,000 (±$28,048) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Hope?
19.1%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Hope?
22 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 31% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Hope work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grants Pass (42%, 4 mi), Medford (10%, 26 mi), Rogue River (2%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is New Hope walkable?
New Hope is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Hope without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Hope, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Hope
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.