For about half of its working residents, Ahtanum is a commute to Yakima
Only 5% work in Ahtanum itself; outside it, Yakima draws the most (50%, 4 miles). The two grades for Ahtanum are B for jobs and income and D for walkability. 6% of workers have no commute at all, next to 20% for Washington as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Ahtanum
Ahtanum makes and builds things
65% of the jobs based in Ahtanum are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ahtanum residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
Most Ahtanum residents work close to home
69% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Ahtanum’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Ahtanum is better than 64% of U.S. towns, #144 of 285 in Washington. The poverty rate holds Ahtanum’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (7.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Ahtanum could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
Goods jobs make up 65% of work in Ahtanum
1,716 jobs are based in Ahtanum.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ahtanum, 2014 → 2024: 1,288 → 1,716. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ahtanum’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Ahtanum’s workers travel
About 19% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who works in Ahtanum, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,335 residents head out to work, 72 work right here, and 1,644 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.22 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Ahtanum ends
Where Ahtanum clocks in
50% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The daily trip from Ahtanum: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ahtanum workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,686 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Washington: 79% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The commute in Ahtanum is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ahtanum is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns, #275 of 285 in Washington. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.9% across Washington.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,802 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Ahtanum households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ahtanum’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Ahtanum ranks: 1,567th of 4,430 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Larch Way WA | 4,424 | $160K | 1.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,565 | Alexandria AL | 3,475 | $85K | 11.0% | 1.7% | 4% | B |
| 1,566 | West Pleasant View CO | 5,051 | $96K | 11.7% | 5.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,567 | Ahtanum WA | 3,777 | $96K | 2.6% | 7.3% | 5% | B |
| 1,568 | Quinton Township NJ | 2,675 | $87K | 7.3% | 4.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,569 | Merrill WI | 2,856 | $81K | 8.6% | 0.9% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,430 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ahtanum, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
Work next door: 56% of Ahtanum’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Yakima. Darker towns draw more of Ahtanum’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ahtanum: questions
What is the median household income in Ahtanum?
$96,149 (±$36,314) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ahtanum?
2.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ahtanum?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ahtanum work?
5% work in town.
Is Ahtanum walkable?
Ahtanum is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ahtanum without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ahtanum, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ahtanum
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.