Photo: Sam Beebe, Ecotrust · CC BY 2.0Yachats has lower household incomes than 63% of U.S. towns
Yachats grades C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. The poverty rate is 12.4%, where Oregon as a whole has 11.9%. 31% of workers have no commute at all (Oregon 19%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Yachats stands out on work
Yachats’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Yachats is Portland, 111 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (20) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
50% 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 ↓
Commutes from Yachats are quick
The average trip to work takes 12 minutes, against 23 across Oregon. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Oregon worker. Time on the road ↓
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 261 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Yachats’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Yachats is better than 16% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Yachats’ grade up ($67,125, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.2%) is left out: Yachats’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Yachats could be anywhere from D− to B−.
The commute from Yachats, by distance
About 50% 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.
About 12 minutes each way for Yachats’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yachats workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 185 commuters (the 31% 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.
In and out of Yachats on a workday
On a workday 209 residents head out to work, 52 work right here, and 370 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Yachats on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
1.6 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.
Who travels to work in Yachats, and from where
Where Yachats clocks in
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Yachats
422 jobs are based in Yachats.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yachats, 2013 → 2023: 326 → 422. 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 Yachats’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Yachats gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yachats is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.4% across Oregon, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 267 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 19.6% of Yachats households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yachats’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Yachats is 2,259th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 223 | Adair Village OR | 1,010 | $99K | 3.6% | 4.4% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,257 | Coldwater MS | 1,326 | $44K | 33.7% | 5.3% | 2% | C− |
| 2,258 | Advance MO | 1,323 | $60K | 14.0% | 0.7% | 9% | C− |
| 2,259 | Yachats OR | 1,013 | $67K | 12.4% | 7.2% | 20% | C− |
| 2,260 | Tyndall SD | 1,117 | $50K | 8.5% | 3.1% | 20% | C− |
| 2,261 | Millington MI | 1,003 | $56K | 18.9% | 5.1% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Yachats, 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 Yachats: questions
What is the median household income in Yachats?
$67,125 (±$20,350) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yachats?
12.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yachats?
12 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 31% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yachats work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Portland (8%, 110 mi), Newport (6%, 22 mi), San Marine (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yachats walkable?
Yachats is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yachats without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yachats, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yachats
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.