Work & commute · La Pine

Work & commute in La Pine, OR

Most working residents leave La Pine for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Bend (34%), Sunriver (7%) and Portland (6%). Half commute less than 29 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

88 of 962 working residents

Typical commute

29 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 874 La Pine residents head out of town to work, 88 work right here, and 1,078 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Pine.

874live here, work elsewhere

88live and work here

1,078work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Pine goes to work

Bend27 mi away

34%329

La Pine (in town)right here

9%88

Sunriver13.7 mi away

7%66

Portland140.1 mi away

6%62

Redmond42.4 mi away

4%40

Three Rivers10.4 mi away

3%29

Salem114.4 mi away

2%17

Eugene85.3 mi away

2%16

Springfield78.7 mi away

1%10

Prineville52.4 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%296

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

How far

How far La Pine commutes

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

16%

12%

41%

30%

16%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

41%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Pine is balanced between jobs and homes

1.21jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in La Pine are

1,166 jobs are based in La Pine. Here is what they are, next to the jobs La Pine’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in La Pine

1,166 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities34%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs La Pine residents hold

962 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+5%

Jobs based in La Pine, 2013 → 2023: 1,111 → 1,166. 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.