Work & commute · Corvallis

Work & commute in Corvallis, OR

46% of Corvallis’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Albany (7%), Salem (5%) and Portland (5%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

46%

9,976 of 21,755 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 11,779 Corvallis residents head out of town to work, 9,976 work right here, and 19,112 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Corvallis.

11,779live here, work elsewhere

9,976live and work here

19,112work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Corvallis goes to work

Corvallis (in town)right here

46%9,976

Albany9.8 mi away

7%1,494

Salem27.5 mi away

5%1,087

Portland73.5 mi away

5%1,059

Eugene36.3 mi away

4%773

Philomath4.5 mi away

2%387

Springfield38.6 mi away

1%268

Lebanon18.4 mi away

1%243

Wilsonville56.9 mi away

1%213

Tigard63.7 mi away

1%192

Everywhere elseother towns and states

28%6,063

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

How far

How far Corvallis commutes

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

57%

14%

20%

57%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Corvallis is balanced between jobs and homes

1.34jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Corvallis are

29,088 jobs are based in Corvallis. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Corvallis’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Corvallis

29,088 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Corvallis residents hold

21,755 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+8%

Jobs based in Corvallis, 2013 → 2023: 27,006 → 29,088. 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.