Mount Rainier National Park · Photo: Steven Pavlov · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Ashford, and the trip to work
Hardly any work in Ashford itself; outside it, Eatonville draws the most (17%, 14 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 20% across Washington. Ashford has 89 jobs, and 116 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Ashford: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 115 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 88 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 (0.77 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Ashford goes to work
Where Ashford clocks in
17% of workers
7% 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.
What Ashford’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ashford, 2013 → 2023: 84 → 89. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ashford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ashford
of Ashford workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 205 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Ashford
About 28% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Ashford: questions
What is the median household income in Ashford?
$113,686 (±$63,662) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ashford?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ashford work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eatonville (17%, 14 mi), Tacoma (9%, 40 mi), Puyallup (7%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ashford without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ashford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ashford
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.