Work & commute · Rockaway Beach

Work & commute in Rockaway Beach, OR

Most working residents leave Rockaway Beach for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Portland (12%), Tillamook (11%) and Garibaldi (10%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

47 of 554 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

26%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 507 Rockaway Beach residents head out of town to work, 47 work right here, and 259 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rockaway Beach.

507live here, work elsewhere

47live and work here

259work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rockaway Beach goes to work

Portland62.6 mi away

12%66

Tillamook12.2 mi away

11%60

Garibaldi4.1 mi away

10%55

Rockaway Beach (in town)right here

8%47

Salem65.4 mi away

3%19

Bay City7 mi away

3%18

Wheeler5.5 mi away

2%12

Hillsboro49.1 mi away

2%12

Nehalem7.4 mi away

2%11

Manzanita6.9 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%246

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

How far

How far Rockaway Beach commutes

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

35%

15%

41%

35%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

41%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rockaway Beach is a commuter town

0.55jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Rockaway Beach are

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

Jobs based in Rockaway Beach

306 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Rockaway Beach residents hold

554 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+85%

Jobs based in Rockaway Beach, 2013 → 2023: 165 → 306. 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.