Work & commute · Cascade Locks

Work & commute in Cascade Locks, OR

Most working residents leave Cascade Locks for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Hood River (20%), Portland (7%) and The Dalles (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27 of 534 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 507 Cascade Locks residents head out of town to work, 27 work right here, and 255 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cascade Locks.

507live here, work elsewhere

27live and work here

255work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cascade Locks goes to work

Hood River16.8 mi away

20%106

Portland39 mi away

7%36

Cascade Locks (in town)right here

5%27

The Dalles35 mi away

4%23

Odell15.5 mi away

3%16

Salem76.5 mi away

2%11

Bend115.2 mi away

2%9

Parkdale17.5 mi away

2%9

Gresham30.2 mi away

1%8

Stevenson, WA2 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%283

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

How far

How far Cascade Locks commutes

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

53%

21%

19%

7%Under 10 mi

53%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cascade Locks is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cascade Locks are

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

Jobs based in Cascade Locks

282 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Cascade Locks residents hold

534 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+17%

Jobs based in Cascade Locks, 2013 → 2023: 241 → 282. 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.