Baring Bridge · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 4.0Where Baring earns its living
The trip to work takes 45 minutes on average; Washington averages 27, the U.S. 26. Hardly any work in Baring itself; outside it, Seattle draws the most (28%, 42 miles). Baring has 85 working residents in the Census job records, and no jobs of its own there.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Baring by day and by night
On a workday 85 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 92 people are in Baring on a workday afternoon, 48% fewer than live here.
0.00 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 people from Baring work
Where Baring clocks in
28% of workers
8% 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.
About 45 minutes each way, longer than most of Washington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baring workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 61 commuters (the 15% 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 Baring
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 Baring: questions
What is the median household income in Baring?
$79,659 (±$19,644) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Baring?
11.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baring?
45 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baring work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seattle (28%, 42 mi), North Bend (8%, 24 mi), Bellevue (8%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Baring 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 Baring, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baring
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.