Photo: Ian Poellet (User:Werewombat) · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Tillamook are lower than in 77% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 11.8% of residents (Oregon 11.9%). For jobs and income Tillamook is better than 20% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (A+). Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 2.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 19.6 in Portland.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Tillamook stands out on work
Tillamook’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Tillamook is Portland, 58 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (202) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Tillamook is where the jobs are
Tillamook has 3,596 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Tillamook are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 23 across Oregon. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oregon worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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.
What’s behind Tillamook’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Tillamook’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tillamook could be anywhere from D to B−.
The distance from Tillamook to work
About 32% 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.
Tillamook fills up on a workday
On a workday 1,624 residents head out to work, 739 work right here, and 2,857 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,400 people are in Tillamook on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The daily trip from Tillamook: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tillamook workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,028 commuters (the 13% 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 daily trip into Tillamook
Where Tillamook clocks in
4% of workers
3% 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 Tillamook’s employers do
3,596 jobs are based in Tillamook.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tillamook, 2013 → 2023: 3,192 → 3,596. 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 Tillamook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Tillamook
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,343 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 95% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 52% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% 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). 12.2% of Tillamook households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Tillamook’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,046th of 3,696: where Tillamook ranks among U.S. towns of 3,600 to 7,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Beavercreek OR | 4,894 | $135K | 4.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 412 | Creswell OR | 5,566 | $100K | 4.3% | 0.8% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 677 | Garden Home-Whitford OR | 6,979 | $98K | 5.9% | 4.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,044 | Hamilton AL | 6,769 | $55K | 16.7% | 3.9% | 33% | C− |
| 3,045 | Palmer AK | 6,710 | $72K | 13.0% | 6.9% | — | C− |
| 3,046 | Tillamook OR | 5,162 | $58K | 11.8% | 4.8% | 31% | C− |
| 3,047 | Maurice River Township NJ | 4,780 | $77K | 19.0% | 7.1% | 6% | C− |
| 3,048 | Southside AR | 4,274 | $66K | 17.5% | 5.4% | 13% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,696 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Tillamook, the top three, the last and three more from Oregon.
The towns around Tillamook
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tillamook workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tillamook | – | C− | A+ | 16 min | $58,176 |
| Fairview | under 1% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Fairview: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tillamook’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Tillamook: questions
What is the median household income in Tillamook?
$58,176 (±$5,705) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tillamook?
11.8%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tillamook?
16 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tillamook work?
31% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (9%, 58 mi), Bay City (4%, 5 mi), Salem (3%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tillamook walkable?
Tillamook is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 13.8 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tillamook without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 52% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tillamook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tillamook
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.