Dufur Jobs

Dufur is a city in Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The population was 588 at the 2000 census. It is a farming community, with wheat being an important crop, along with tree fruit and grapes. Dufur was incorporated in 1893 and named after Andrew J. Dufur and his brother Enoch Burnham Dufur. In 1859 they began raising stock on 600 acres of land located where the city now stands. On the second full weekend of August, Dufur holds its annual Threshing Bee, a harvest festival celebrating the local agricultural economy. The festival includes demonstrations of horse-drawn harvesting equipment, and a steam tractor that powers a belt-driven threshing machine. From early July through mid-August the town of Dufur's population nearly doubles with each passing week as hundreds of Boy Scouts and adult leaders from the Cascade Pacific Council of the Boy Scouts of America flock to Camp Baldwin, a Boy Scout Summer Camp 17 miles west of Dufur in the Mount Hood National Forest.

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Among the most common occupations in Dufur are Sales and office occupations, 24%. Service occupations, 23%. and Management, professional, and related occupations, 19%. Approximately 72 percent of workers in Dufur, Oregon work for companies, 14 percent work for the government and 10 percent are self-employed.

Currently, the most commonly listed Dufur Jobs are for physical therapist jobs, rn-birth center jobs, cook jobs, part time merchandiser jobs, tech-rad reg 4 jobs and teller coordinator 1 jobs.

The leading industries in Dufur, Oregon are Retail trade, 20%; Educational, health and social services, 19%; and Manufacturing, 9%. Simply Hired's Dufur job listings indicate that the following industries in Dufur are hiring the most workers: Clinics & Outpatient Services, Hospitals, Trauma Centers, Outpatient Surgery Centers and Commercial Banking.

According to government data, the average salary for jobs in Dufur, Oregon is $27,084, and the median income of households in Dufur was $37,500.

Dufur has an unemployment rate of 4.2%, compared the national average of 5.8%.

Population of Dufur Total population 588 Male 50.85% Female 49.15% Median age 42.7     Dufur Housing Owner-occupied homes 79.9% Median cost of a home $94,700 Median mortgage payment $485 Renter-occupied homes 20.1% Vacant housing 7.9% Median monthly rent $436     Average Income Median for all male full-time $34,375 Median for all female full-time $19,792     Household Income Less than $10,000 11% $10,000 to $14,999 4% $15,000 to $24,999 16% $25,000 to $34,999 13% $35,000 to $49,999 19% $50,000 to $74,999 24% $75,000 to $99,999 7% $100,000 to $149,999 5% $150,000 to $199,999 1% $200,000 or more 0%

Education Less than 9th grade 2% 9th to 12th grade, no diploma 11% High school graduate 38% Some college, no degree 29% Associate's degree 9% Bachelor's degree 7% Graduate degree 4%     Marital Status Never married 18% Currently married 57% Separated 2% Widowed 7% Divorced 16%     Race White 99% Black or African American 0% Asian 0% Other 1%     Dufur Commute Carpool 15.6% Public transportation 0.0% Average travel time 22 minutes

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