Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Yoncalla commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Yoncalla D; getting around on foot earns it B−. Yoncalla has 128 jobs, and 294 of its residents work somewhere. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Yoncalla: the gist
Yoncalla workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 23 across Oregon. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 123 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Yoncalla and Roseburg trade workers both ways
Roseburg is the top workplace for Yoncalla residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Yoncalla come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Yoncalla workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 19% across Oregon. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 294 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Yoncalla’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Yoncalla is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Yoncalla’s grade up (13.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (14.6%) is left out: Yoncalla’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, Yoncalla could be anywhere from D− to C.
A commute of about 39 minutes in Yoncalla
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yoncalla workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 238 commuters (the 1% 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.
15% of working residents work in Roseburg
Where Yoncalla clocks in
15% of workers
12% 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.
How many people are in Yoncalla by day
On a workday 278 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 112 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Yoncalla on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
In Yoncalla, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yoncalla, 2013 → 2023: 105 → 128. 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 Yoncalla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Yoncalla works
About 26% 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.
Driving is how Yoncalla gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yoncalla is more walkable than 46% 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 241 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 1.4% of Yoncalla households have no vehicle (Oregon 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yoncalla’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Yoncalla is 2,572nd among 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,570 | Lawrence MI | 1,005 | $36K | 28.9% | 11.1% | 7% | D |
| 2,571 | Sweet Springs MO | 1,323 | $47K | 14.9% | 5.5% | 14% | D |
| 2,572 | Yoncalla OR | 1,029 | $55K | 13.4% | 14.6% | 5% | D |
| 2,573 | Williamstown PA | 1,298 | $62K | 22.7% | 11.7% | 2% | D |
| 2,574 | Sister Bay WI | 1,177 | $71K | 24.7% | 0.7% | 18% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Yoncalla, 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 Yoncalla: questions
What is the median household income in Yoncalla?
$55,260 (±$12,709) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,011 across Oregon and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yoncalla?
13.4%, against 11.9% across Oregon and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yoncalla?
39 minutes each way on average, against 23 across Oregon and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yoncalla work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roseburg (15%, 26 mi), Eugene (12%, 33 mi), Springfield (10%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yoncalla walkable?
Yoncalla is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yoncalla without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yoncalla, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yoncalla
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.