Boston Flour Mill · CC0Jobs and earnings in Shedd, and the trip to work
Only 1% work in Shedd; the top destination outside it is Eugene (26%, 28 miles). Employers in Shedd report 75 jobs for 96 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Shedd for work, and who comes in
On a workday 95 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere.
About 57 people are in Shedd on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
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 Shedd: the destinations
Where Shedd clocks in
26% of workers
6% 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.
What Shedd’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shedd, 2013 → 2023: 63 → 75. 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 Shedd’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Shedd’s commute, mile by mile
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 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 Shedd: questions
What is the poverty rate in Shedd?
0.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Shedd work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eugene (26%, 28 mi), Corvallis (7%, 11 mi), Albany (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shedd, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shedd
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.