Photo: Benjamin Cody · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of O'Brien works elsewhere
Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 19% across Oregon. O'Brien has 7 jobs for 118 working residents. Hardly any work in O'Brien; the top destination outside it is Cave Junction (25%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of O'Brien on a workday
On a workday 118 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 270 people are in O'Brien on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Commuting out of O'Brien: the destinations
Where O'Brien clocks in
25% of workers
14% 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.
A place that makes things: 57% of O'Brien’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in O'Brien, 2013 → 2023: 37 → 7. 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 O'Brien’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in O'Brien
of O'Brien workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 36 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where in the region O'Brien works
About 31% 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 O'Brien: questions
What is the median household income in O'Brien?
$29,252 (±$5,462) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in O'Brien?
13.2%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in O'Brien work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cave Junction (25%, 7 mi), Grants Pass (14%, 31 mi), Medford (8%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around O'Brien 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 O'Brien, from the people who make the trip.
More of O'Brien
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.