Portland

City Commute Profile

Portland, OR

Where Portland’s 321,936 resident workers go each day — 58.9% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Beaverton.

OregonLODES 2023 data
60
Commute Score

60 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Portland at a glance
Employed Residents
321,936
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
10.0mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
58.9%
Share working within the area
Work from home
28.5%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Beaverton
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Portland proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Portland commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Portland

321,936 commutes, one dot at a time

Portland

Where 321,936 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Portland, by worker count.

1Portland0.0 mi189,604
2Beaverton8.9 mi11,351
3Hillsboro14.7 mi10,825
4Gresham9.9 mi9,231
5Tigard10.0 mi8,349
6Vancouver7.8 mi6,536
7Lake Oswego8.3 mi5,603
8Salem45.3 mi5,091

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Portland.

1Portland0.0 mi189,604
2Gresham9.9 mi20,931
3Vancouver7.8 mi16,674
4Beaverton8.9 mi14,664
5Hillsboro14.7 mi11,238
6Tigard10.0 mi8,056
7Aloha11.6 mi6,507
8Lake Oswego8.3 mi6,431

Top industries

The sectors that employ Portland’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance15.3%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services10.0%
EDEducational Services9.2%
AFAccommodation and Food Services8.2%
RTRetail Trade7.5%
TRTransportation and Warehousing6.2%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.6%
COConstruction5.3%
MFManufacturing5.2%

Portland city profile

Who lives in Portland — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
641,165
Median age
38.8yrs
Median household income
$90,919
Median home value
$581,500
Median gross rent
$1,655/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
53.8%
Poverty rate
12.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Portland

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

8 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps32%
8 Gbps21%
See all internet providers in Portland

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).