Work & commute · Cannon Beach

Work & commute in Cannon Beach, OR

Most working residents leave Cannon Beach for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Seaside (28%), Portland (9%) and Astoria (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

85 of 509 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 424 Cannon Beach residents head out of town to work, 85 work right here, and 1,269 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cannon Beach.

424live here, work elsewhere

85live and work here

1,269work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cannon Beach goes to work

Seaside7.2 mi away

28%145

Cannon Beach (in town)right here

17%85

Portland67.7 mi away

9%45

Astoria21.8 mi away

4%21

Tigard65.2 mi away

2%12

Hillsboro55.6 mi away

2%12

Gearhart10 mi away

2%11

Warrenton19.7 mi away

2%11

Salem80.6 mi away

2%10

Beaverton62 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%150

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

How far

How far Cannon Beach commutes

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

51%

11%

35%

51%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

35%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cannon Beach is a job hub

2.66jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Cannon Beach are

1,354 jobs are based in Cannon Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cannon Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cannon Beach

1,354 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Cannon Beach residents hold

509 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+43%

Jobs based in Cannon Beach, 2013 → 2023: 948 → 1,354. 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.