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Work & commute in Cayuse · A commuter town

100% of Cayuse’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Cayuse for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Mission (54%), Pendleton (14%) and Ione (4%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 28 working residents
Typical commute
5 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Work from home
0%
Less than OR (19%)
Jobs based here
0
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Cayuse?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

54% of working residents work in Mission

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Ione: 1 residents work here (4%)La Grande: 1 residents work here (4%)Pendleton: 4 residents work here (14%)Eugene: 1 residents work here (4%)Medford: 1 residents work here (4%)Portland: 1 residents work here (4%)Yakima: 1 residents work here (4%)Seattle: 1 residents work here (4%)CayuseMission: 15 residents work here (54%)MissionPendletonIoneLa GrandeEugeneMedfordCayuse
1
Mission4.6 mi away
54%15
2
Pendleton11.9 mi away
14%4
3
Ione61.5 mi away
4%1
4
La Grande33.9 mi away
4%1
5
Eugene249.1 mi away
4%1
6
Medford313.7 mi away
4%1
7
Portland197.3 mi away
4%1
8
Yakima, WA113.8 mi away
4%1
9
Seattle, WA223.9 mi away
4%1
Everywhere elseother towns and states
7%2
The top trips

Where Cayuse clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

How far

Half of Cayuse commutes less than 5 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miMission: 54% · 4.6 miPendleton: 14% · 11.9 miIone: 4% · 61.5 miLa Grande: 4% · 33.9 miEugene: 4% · 249.1 miMedford: 4% · 313.7 miPortland: 4% · 197.3 miYakima: 4% · 113.8 miSeattle: 4% · 223.9 miMission 54%Pendleton 14%Ione 4%La Grande 4%Eugene 4%Cayuse
CayuseTop destinations (size = commuters)
54%Under 10 mi15 residents
14%10–24 mi4 residents
4%25–50 mi1 residents
29%Over 50 mi8 residents

About 29% 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.

Day and night

Cayuse quiets down on a workday

On a workday 28 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.

28live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
0work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night44
Workday16
44live here− 28head out to work+ 0come in to work= 16on a workday

About 16 people are in Cayuse on a workday afternoon, 64% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.00jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

Time on the road

Working from home in Cayuse

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

Working from home
0%

of Cayuse workers work from home, vs 19% across Oregon. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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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.

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