Work & commute · The Dalles

Work & commute in The Dalles, OR

41% of The Dalles’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Portland (8%), Hood River (7%) and Salem (2%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41%

2,884 of 7,047 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,163 The Dalles residents head out of town to work, 2,884 work right here, and 4,397 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in The Dalles.

4,163live here, work elsewhere

2,884live and work here

4,397work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where The Dalles goes to work

The Dalles (in town)right here

41%2,884

Portland72.6 mi away

8%534

Hood River19.5 mi away

7%525

Salem102.2 mi away

2%142

Bend106.8 mi away

1%95

Gresham62.7 mi away

1%73

Eugene143.6 mi away

1%58

Redmond92.4 mi away

1%52

White Salmon, WA18.4 mi away

1%50

Odell19.5 mi away

1%49

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%2,585

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

How far

How far The Dalles commutes

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

46%

16%

36%

46%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

The Dalles is balanced between jobs and homes

1.03jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.03 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in The Dalles are

7,281 jobs are based in The Dalles. Here is what they are, next to the jobs The Dalles’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in The Dalles

7,281 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs The Dalles residents hold

7,047 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+2%

Jobs based in The Dalles, 2013 → 2023: 7,132 → 7,281. 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.