Winn Barn · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0Weston has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 393 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 19% for Oregon as a whole. Weston has 402 jobs, and 222 of its residents work somewhere. Only 4% stay in Weston for work; outside it, Walla Walla is the main destination (24%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Weston
Weston makes and builds things
89% of the jobs based in Weston are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Weston residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Weston workers cross into Washington
29% of Weston workers work outside Oregon, the Census survey finds. In the commute data, Walla Walla (24%), College Place (3%) and Kennewick (2%) are among the top workplaces. The commute map ↓
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 222 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A place that makes things: 89% of Weston’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weston, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 402. 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 Weston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Weston’s workforce comes from
Where Weston clocks in
24% 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.
Weston by day and by night
On a workday 213 residents head out to work and 9 work right here.
About 880 people are in Weston on a workday afternoon, 26% more 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.
About 23 minutes each way, about the OR average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weston workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 157 commuters (the 6% 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.
Half of Weston commutes less than 18 miles
About 25% 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 Weston: questions
What is the median household income in Weston?
$45,000 (±$20,809) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weston?
16.5%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weston?
23 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weston work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Walla Walla (24%, 18 mi), Milton-Freewater (10%, 8 mi), Pendleton (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Weston without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weston
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.