Photo: Holtfarms · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Willamina commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Willamina grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. There are 276 jobs in Willamina; 901 of its residents have a job. 11% of workers work from home, 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 sets Willamina apart on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Willamina
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Willamina is better than 27% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Willamina’s grade up (6.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Willamina could be anywhere from D to B.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Oregon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Willamina workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 822 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.
How a workday changes Willamina
On a workday 869 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 244 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Willamina on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
13% of working residents work in Grand Ronde
Where Willamina clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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.
The kinds of work in Willamina
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Willamina, 2013 → 2023: 307 → 276. 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 Willamina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Willamina’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Most of Willamina commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Willamina is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. 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 921 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 59% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 59% 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). 8.0% of Willamina households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Willamina’s commuters take a bus or train.
Willamina is 3,596th of 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 202 | Boring OR | 1,869 | $159K | 3.8% | 6.0% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 247 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,594 | San Castle FL | 3,052 | $57K | 19.0% | 8.6% | 1% | C |
| 3,595 | Elberta AL | 2,183 | $55K | 21.4% | 1.9% | 4% | C |
| 3,596 | Willamina OR | 2,276 | $59K | 6.8% | 5.7% | 4% | C |
| 3,597 | Irrigon OR | 2,042 | $74K | 12.2% | 4.6% | 3% | C |
| 3,598 | Greenville NH | 2,029 | $72K | 13.7% | 7.7% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Willamina, 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 Willamina: questions
What is the median household income in Willamina?
$58,906 (±$12,287) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Willamina?
6.8%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Willamina?
31 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Willamina work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Ronde (13%, 7 mi), Salem (11%, 25 mi), McMinnville (10%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Willamina walkable?
Willamina is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Willamina without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 59% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Willamina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Willamina
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.