Work & commute · Sweet Home

Work & commute in Sweet Home, OR

Most working residents leave Sweet Home for work: only 16% work in town. The top destinations are Albany (9%), Salem (7%) and Lebanon (7%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16%

632 of 3,980 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,348 Sweet Home residents head out of town to work, 632 work right here, and 1,202 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sweet Home.

3,348live here, work elsewhere

632live and work here

1,202work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sweet Home goes to work

Sweet Home (in town)right here

16%632

Albany24.9 mi away

9%365

Salem39.2 mi away

7%280

Lebanon13.4 mi away

7%274

Eugene31.8 mi away

6%239

Corvallis30.7 mi away

5%205

Portland78.3 mi away

4%160

Springfield28 mi away

3%115

Tangent22.6 mi away

1%40

Wilsonville62.7 mi away

1%38

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%1,632

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

How far

How far Sweet Home commutes

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

22%

23%

35%

21%

22%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

35%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sweet Home is a commuter town

0.46jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sweet Home are

1,834 jobs are based in Sweet Home. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sweet Home’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sweet Home

1,834 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Sweet Home residents hold

3,980 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+18%

Jobs based in Sweet Home, 2013 → 2023: 1,558 → 1,834. 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.