Work & commute · Dunes

Work & commute in Dunes, OR

Most working residents leave Dunes for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Florence (31%), Eugene (8%) and Portland (4%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12 of 458 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 446 Dunes residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 129 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Dunes.

446live here, work elsewhere

12live and work here

129work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Dunes goes to work

Florence5.8 mi away

31%143

Eugene49.4 mi away

8%37

Portland132.8 mi away

4%17

Salem87.7 mi away

3%16

Reedsport14.6 mi away

3%13

Dunes City (in town)right here

3%12

Roseburg60.2 mi away

3%12

Springfield56.1 mi away

2%11

Coos Bay37.2 mi away

2%7

Corvallis60.8 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%183

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

How far

How far Dunes commutes

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

45%

10%

39%

45%Under 10 mi

5%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

39%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Dunes is a commuter town

0.31jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Dunes are

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

Jobs based in Dunes

141 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)56%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)27%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month74%

Jobs Dunes residents hold

458 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+262%

Jobs based in Dunes, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 141. 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.