Siletz Agency Site · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Siletz top those of 64% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 5.5% of residents, where Oregon as a whole has 11.9%. The two grades for Siletz are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. 11% of workers have no commute at all, where Oregon as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Siletz
On income, poverty and job access, Siletz is better than 48% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Siletz’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (8.0%) is left out: Siletz’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Siletz could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Siletz by day and by night
On a workday 352 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 238 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
23% of working residents work in Newport
Where Siletz clocks in
23% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Siletz
278 jobs are based in Siletz.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Siletz, 2013 → 2023: 102 → 278. 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 Siletz’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Siletz spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Siletz workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 439 commuters (the 11% 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 Siletz works
About 28% 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.
Getting around Siletz: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Siletz is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.4% across Oregon.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 493 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 68% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.5% of Siletz households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Siletz’s commuters take a bus or train.
Siletz places 1,551st of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 143 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 230 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,549 | Hamilton IN | 1,559 | $70K | 7.3% | 3.5% | 6% | B− |
| 1,550 | Calverton Park MO | 1,134 | $68K | 21.0% | 10.7% | 0% | B− |
| 1,551 | Siletz OR | 1,213 | $87K | 5.5% | 8.0% | 10% | B− |
| 1,552 | Junction Township KS | 1,230 | $77K | 4.5% | 1.1% | 4% | B− |
| 1,553 | Sagola Township MI | 1,053 | $78K | 4.4% | 5.1% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Siletz, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
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 Siletz: questions
What is the median household income in Siletz?
$86,667 (±$27,832) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Siletz?
5.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Siletz?
19 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Siletz work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport (23%, 9 mi), Toledo (8%, 7 mi), Corvallis (5%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Siletz walkable?
Siletz is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Siletz without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Siletz, from the people who make the trip.
More of Siletz
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.