Photo: Tedder · CC BY 3.0Most of Stanfield commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Stanfield has 234 jobs, against 799 working residents. The two grades for Stanfield are C for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Home is the office for <1% of workers, 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 the numbers say about work in Stanfield
Stanfield and Hermiston trade workers both ways
Hermiston is the top workplace for Stanfield residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Stanfield come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stanfield is a place people come home to
There are 234 jobs based in Stanfield, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Stanfield has about 1,600 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Stanfield workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 799 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Stanfield earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Stanfield is better than 34% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Stanfield’s grade up (8.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($60,074, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Stanfield’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Stanfield could be anywhere from D to B.
The towns that employ Stanfield’s residents
Where Stanfield clocks in
19% of workers
8% 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.
Stanfield on a workday afternoon
On a workday 782 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 217 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Stanfield on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Each way, about 16 minutes from Stanfield
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stanfield workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 845 commuters (the <1% 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.
What Stanfield’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stanfield, 2013 → 2023: 233 → 234. 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 Stanfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Stanfield commutes less than 11 miles
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.
In Stanfield, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stanfield is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Stanfield near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 847 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 47% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 47% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 8.0% of Stanfield households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stanfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Stanfield ranks: 3,203rd of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 202 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 245 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,201 | Britt IA | 1,981 | $73K | 10.1% | 2.4% | 19% | C |
| 3,202 | McComb OH | 1,549 | $64K | 9.8% | 2.7% | 7% | C |
| 3,203 | Stanfield OR | 2,135 | $60K | 8.0% | 4.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,204 | Marcellus Township MI | 2,411 | $73K | 10.8% | 5.9% | 9% | C |
| 3,205 | Lick Township OH | 2,652 | $46K | 18.4% | 0.0% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Stanfield, 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 Stanfield: questions
What is the median household income in Stanfield?
$60,074 (±$16,117) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stanfield?
8.0%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stanfield?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. <1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stanfield work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hermiston (19%, 5 mi), Pendleton (8%, 20 mi), Umatilla (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stanfield walkable?
Stanfield is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stanfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 47% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stanfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stanfield
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.