Photo: Tedder · CC BY 3.0Powers has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
8% of workers work from home, where Oregon as a whole has 19%. Employers in Powers report 102 jobs for 204 working residents. Only 5% work in Powers itself; outside it, Myrtle Point draws the most (19%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Powers apart
Powers and Myrtle Point trade workers both ways
Myrtle Point is the top workplace for Powers residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Powers come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Powers workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 23 across Oregon. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 84 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 204 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where the trip to work from Powers ends
Where Powers clocks in
19% of workers
11% 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.
From Powers, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Powers workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 141 commuters (the 8% 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.
How many people are in Powers by day
On a workday 193 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 91 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Powers on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
Powers makes things: 37% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Powers, 2013 → 2023: 66 → 102. 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 Powers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Powers to work
About 23% 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 Powers: questions
What is the median household income in Powers?
$48,625 (±$13,977) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Powers?
23.3%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Powers?
34 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Powers work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Myrtle Point (19%, 13 mi), Coquille (12%, 21 mi), Coos Bay (11%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Powers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Powers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Powers
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.