Work & commute · Tangent

Work & commute in Tangent, OR

Most working residents leave Tangent for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Albany (23%), Corvallis (20%) and Salem (7%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 589 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 575 Tangent residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 1,476 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tangent.

575live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

1,476work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tangent goes to work

Albany5.5 mi away

23%136

Corvallis8.4 mi away

20%118

Salem26.4 mi away

7%44

Portland72 mi away

4%25

Eugene33.9 mi away

4%21

Tangent (in town)right here

2%14

Lebanon10.1 mi away

2%9

Millersburg9.3 mi away

1%7

Tualatin59.6 mi away

1%7

Springfield34.7 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%201

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

How far

How far Tangent commutes

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

56%

16%

20%

56%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tangent is a job hub

2.53jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Tangent are

1,490 jobs are based in Tangent. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tangent’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Tangent

1,490 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities46%

Services (health, schools, offices…)27%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month77%

Jobs Tangent residents hold

589 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+65%

Jobs based in Tangent, 2013 → 2023: 901 → 1,490. 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.