Oregon Caves Chateau · Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Williams
Employers in Williams report 309 jobs for 301 working residents. 57% of workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. About one in ten work in Williams; the top destination outside it is Grants Pass (22%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Williams stands out on work
Home offices are common in Williams
57% of Williams workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Time on the road ↓
Williams makes and builds things
76% of the jobs based in Williams are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Williams residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 23%. The jobs ↓
Williams and Grants Pass trade workers both ways
Grants Pass is the top workplace for Williams residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Williams come from (18% of its jobs). 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 301 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Working from home in Williams
of Williams workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 63 commuters (the 57% 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.
Goods, not services: 76% of the jobs in Williams
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Williams, 2013 → 2023: 104 → 309. 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 Williams’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where people from Williams work
Where Williams clocks in
22% of workers
12% 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.
A workday in Williams: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 274 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 282 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.03 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Near or far: the trip to work from Williams
About 28% 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 Williams: questions
What is the median household income in Williams?
$78,094 (±$8,012) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Williams?
8.3%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Williams work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grants Pass (22%, 15 mi), Medford (12%, 24 mi), Portland (4%, 231 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Williams without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Williams, from the people who make the trip.
More of Williams
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.