Work & commute · Banks

Work & commute in Banks, OR

Most working residents leave Banks for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Hillsboro (25%), Portland (16%) and Beaverton (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

44 of 889 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 845 Banks residents head out of town to work, 44 work right here, and 453 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Banks.

845live here, work elsewhere

44live and work here

453work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Banks goes to work

Hillsboro10.5 mi away

25%220

Portland22.8 mi away

16%138

Beaverton16.9 mi away

6%57

Banks (in town)right here

5%44

Forest Grove6.1 mi away

4%40

Tigard20.5 mi away

3%26

Salem47.9 mi away

1%13

Aloha14.2 mi away

1%12

Sherwood21.8 mi away

1%10

Tualatin23 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%319

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Banks commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

31%

50%

14%

31%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Banks is a commuter town

0.56jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.56 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Banks are

497 jobs are based in Banks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Banks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Banks

497 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Banks residents hold

889 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+5%

Jobs based in Banks, 2013 → 2023: 475 → 497. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.