Uncas School · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0Blyn has 11.0 jobs for every working resident: 616 people commute in to work
Hardly any work in Blyn itself; outside it, Sequim draws the most (9%, 7 miles). Employers in Blyn report 616 jobs, against 56 working residents. 0% of workers have no commute at all; Washington has 20%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Blyn
On a workday 56 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 690 people are in Blyn on a workday afternoon, 418% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Blyn
Where Blyn clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
Blyn is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blyn, 2013 → 2023: 523 → 616. 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 Blyn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Blyn: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blyn workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 47 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.
How far it is to work from Blyn
About 36% 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 Blyn: questions
What is the median household income in Blyn?
$103,036 (±$8,968) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blyn?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blyn?
17 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blyn work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sequim (9%, 7 mi), Seattle (7%, 40 mi), Port Angeles (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Blyn 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 Blyn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blyn
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.