Miller Cemetery Church · Photo: Joangray, mehamaOR · CC BY-SA 3.0Scotts Mills has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
For 6% of workers, the job is at home, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole. There are 42 jobs in Scotts Mills, and 161 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Scotts Mills itself; outside it, Salem draws the most (17%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Scotts Mills
On a workday 160 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 41 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in Scotts Mills 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Scotts Mills work
Where Scotts Mills clocks in
17% 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.
Jobs in Scotts Mills: what the 42 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scotts Mills, 2014 → 2024: 8 → 42. 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 Scotts Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Scotts Mills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scotts Mills workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 122 commuters (the 6% 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 Scotts Mills works
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.
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 Scotts Mills: questions
What is the median household income in Scotts Mills?
$66,806 (±$36,021) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scotts Mills?
5.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scotts Mills?
24 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scotts Mills work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (17%, 19 mi), Silverton (16%, 6 mi), Portland (10%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Scotts Mills 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 Scotts Mills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scotts Mills
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.