Petersen Rock Garden · Photo: Another Believer · CC BY-SA 3.0Pronghorn has 7.7 jobs for every working resident: 307 people commute in to work
Hardly any stay in Pronghorn for work; outside it, Bend is the main destination (33%, 11 miles). There are 307 jobs in Pronghorn, and 40 of its residents work somewhere. 8% of workers work from home, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Pronghorn: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 40 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 520 people are in Pronghorn on a workday afternoon, 104% more 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.
Where Pronghorn’s workers come from
Where Pronghorn clocks in
33% of workers
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Pronghorn
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pronghorn, 2013 → 2023: 104 → 307. 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 Pronghorn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pronghorn
of Pronghorn workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 129 commuters (the 9% 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 Pronghorn to work
About 25% 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 Pronghorn: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pronghorn?
0.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pronghorn work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bend (33%, 11 mi), Redmond (23%, 5 mi), Wilsonville (5%, 110 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pronghorn 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 Pronghorn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pronghorn
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.