Work & commute · Tigard

Work & commute in Tigard, OR

Most working residents leave Tigard for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Portland (28%), Beaverton (10%) and Hillsboro (7%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
13%
3,464 of 27,177 working residents
Typical commute
8 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
23 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 23,713 Tigard residents head out of town to work, 3,464 work right here, and 39,708 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tigard.

23,713live here, work elsewhere
3,464live and work here
39,708work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Tigard goes to work

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1
Portland10.2 mi away
28%7,643
2
Tigard (in town)right here
13%3,464
3
Beaverton4.1 mi away
10%2,600
4
Hillsboro10.1 mi away
7%2,022
5
Tualatin3.2 mi away
6%1,654
6
Lake Oswego4.1 mi away
4%1,095
7
Wilsonville7.7 mi away
2%676
8
Salem36.4 mi away
2%650
9
Sherwood5.2 mi away
1%345
10
Newberg11.7 mi away
1%269
Everywhere elseother towns and states
25%6,759

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

How far

How far Tigard commutes

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

68%Under 10 mi
24%10–24 mi
4%25–50 mi
5%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Tigard is a job hub

1.59jobs 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 Tigard are

43,172 jobs are based in Tigard. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tigard’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Tigard

43,172 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)14%
Trade, transport & utilities23%
Services (health, schools, offices…)63%
$1,250 a month or less10%
$1,251–$3,333 a month22%
Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Tigard residents hold

27,177 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)16%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)65%
$1,250 a month or less10%
$1,251–$3,333 a month19%
Over $3,333 a month70%
+5%

Jobs based in Tigard, 2013 → 2023: 41,119 → 43,172. 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.

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