Work & commute · Gervais

Work & commute in Gervais, OR

Most working residents leave Gervais for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Woodburn (12%), Salem (11%) and Portland (10%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

31 of 1,088 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,057 Gervais residents head out of town to work, 31 work right here, and 405 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Gervais.

1,057live here, work elsewhere

31live and work here

405work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Gervais goes to work

Woodburn3.2 mi away

12%135

Salem14.1 mi away

11%117

Portland32 mi away

10%109

Wilsonville15.3 mi away

6%66

Tualatin19.5 mi away

4%40

Gervais (in town)right here

3%31

Canby14.8 mi away

2%27

Tigard22.4 mi away

2%26

Beaverton25.9 mi away

2%22

Keizer9.6 mi away

1%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%499

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

How far

How far Gervais commutes

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

34%

40%

21%

34%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Gervais is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Gervais are

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

Jobs based in Gervais

436 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)36%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Gervais residents hold

1,088 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+29%

Jobs based in Gervais, 2013 → 2023: 338 → 436. 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.