Photo: M.O. Stevens · Public domainYamhill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Measured by household income, Yamhill is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns. Employers in Yamhill report 255 jobs; 510 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Yamhill are B+ for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Yamhill
Inside Yamhill’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Yamhill is better than 71% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Yamhill’s grade up ($113,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Yamhill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Yamhill could be anywhere from B− to A.
Commuting from Yamhill: about 35 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yamhill workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 572 commuters (the 7% 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 many people are in Yamhill by day
On a workday 495 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 240 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Yamhill on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Hillsboro
Where Yamhill clocks in
13% 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.
67% of the jobs in Yamhill pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yamhill, 2013 → 2023: 232 → 255. 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 Yamhill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Yamhill
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.
Yamhill is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yamhill is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.5% of 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 618 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 98% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 98% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 0.7% of Yamhill households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yamhill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600, Yamhill ranks 687th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 143 | Coburg OR | 1,373 | $98K | 1.5% | 8.9% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 230 | Aurora OR | 1,113 | $108K | 6.1% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 685 | Lake Riverside CA | 1,262 | $129K | 1.3% | 9.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 686 | Erie IL | 1,484 | $83K | 3.0% | 4.1% | 11% | B+ |
| 687 | Yamhill OR | 1,220 | $114K | 8.4% | 1.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 688 | Fayetteville Township IL | 1,459 | $101K | 6.7% | 3.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 689 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Yamhill, 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 Yamhill: questions
What is the median household income in Yamhill?
$113,750 (±$21,046) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yamhill?
8.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yamhill?
35 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yamhill work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hillsboro (13%, 18 mi), McMinnville (12%, 9 mi), Portland (7%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yamhill walkable?
Yamhill is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yamhill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 98% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yamhill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yamhill
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.