Work & commute · Sisters

Work & commute in Sisters, OR

About one in 4 of Sisters’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Bend (22%), Redmond (6%) and Portland (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27%

329 of 1,217 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

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 888 Sisters residents head out of town to work, 329 work right here, and 1,570 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sisters.

888live here, work elsewhere

329live and work here

1,570work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sisters goes to work

Sisters (in town)right here

27%329

Bend20.3 mi away

22%262

Redmond18.5 mi away

6%70

Portland101.4 mi away

6%69

Eugene79.3 mi away

2%26

Salem84.5 mi away

2%22

Black Butte Ranch7.6 mi away

2%22

Prineville34.2 mi away

2%20

Springfield72.6 mi away

1%11

Lake Oswego95.7 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%376

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

How far

How far Sisters commutes

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

36%

33%

26%

36%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sisters is a job hub

1.56jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Sisters are

1,899 jobs are based in Sisters. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sisters’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sisters

1,899 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Sisters residents hold

1,217 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+42%

Jobs based in Sisters, 2013 → 2023: 1,339 → 1,899. 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.