Photo: Katr67 · Public domainTurner has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
There are 559 jobs in Turner, and 1,127 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Turner is better than 69% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (C+). Measured by household income, Turner is ahead of 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Turner apart on work
Turner makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Turner are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Turner residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Turner and Salem trade workers both ways
Salem is the top workplace for Turner residents (39%) and also where the most people who work in Turner come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Turner’s working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 26 minutes, longer than the Oregon average of 23. Time on the road ↓
Turner has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Turner went from 390 in 2013 to 559 in 2023, +43%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Turner
The poverty rate holds Turner’s grade up (3.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Turner could be anywhere from B− to A+.
A place that makes things: 58% of Turner’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Turner, 2013 → 2023: 390 → 559. 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 Turner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Turner goes to work
Where Turner clocks in
39% of workers
2% 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.
Getting to work from Turner takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Turner workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,261 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.
The daily flow of workers through Turner
On a workday 1,108 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 540 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Turner on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
How many miles Turner commutes
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.
The commute in Turner is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,418 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 34% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 34% 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). 1.5% of Turner households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Turner’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300, Turner ranks 1,293rd of 5,207 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Dunthorpe OR | 1,875 | $250K | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 214 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 821 | Dundee OR | 3,193 | $107K | 3.3% | 4.2% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,291 | Lavaca AR | 2,528 | $81K | 5.9% | 3.0% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,292 | Epworth IA | 2,037 | $84K | 5.2% | 2.4% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,293 | Turner OR | 2,412 | $102K | 3.9% | 6.8% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,294 | McDonald PA | 1,994 | $66K | 8.0% | 2.8% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,295 | Chebanse Township IL | 2,782 | $83K | 8.0% | 1.3% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | 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 Turner, 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 Turner: questions
What is the median household income in Turner?
$101,979 (±$15,727) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Turner?
3.9%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Turner?
26 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Turner work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salem (39%, 6 mi), Portland (7%, 50 mi), Albany (2%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Turner walkable?
Turner is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Turner without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 34% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Turner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Turner
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.