Work means Seattle for about two in five of Boulevard Park’s working residents
Boulevard Park grades B− for jobs and income and A for walkability. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 7.5 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 94.7 in Seattle. Working from home is the commute for 13% of workers; Washington has 20%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Boulevard Park: the gist
Most jobs in Boulevard Park pay over $40,000 a year
81% of the jobs based in Boulevard Park pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Most Boulevard Park residents work close to home
69% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. Only 4% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Boulevard Park makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Boulevard Park are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Boulevard Park residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
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.
What’s behind Boulevard Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Boulevard Park is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #196 of 285 in Washington. Job access by car holds Boulevard Park’s grade up (ahead of 94% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (28.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boulevard Park could be anywhere from C to A−.
Boulevard Park works in goods: 41% of its jobs
2,402 jobs are based in Boulevard Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boulevard Park, 2014 → 2024: 2,944 → 2,402. 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 Boulevard Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Boulevard Park works
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 commutes out of Boulevard Park, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,642 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 2,363 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Boulevard Park on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.43 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.
The places Boulevard Park commutes to
Where Boulevard Park clocks in
41% 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 24 minutes to work from Boulevard Park
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boulevard Park workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,798 commuters (the 13% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Boulevard Park
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boulevard Park is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns, #87 of 285 in Washington. Both inputs place Boulevard Park near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,061 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 28% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 7.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 90% 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). 9.7% of Boulevard Park households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Boulevard Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Boulevard Park places 2,104th of 3,938 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 15 | Larch Way WA | 4,424 | $160K | 1.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
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| 32 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 154 | Lake Holm WA | 3,555 | $177K | 1.1% | 3.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 2,102 | Tulpehocken Township PA | 3,703 | $82K | 13.5% | 4.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,103 | North Shore VA | 3,638 | $110K | 10.3% | 4.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,104 | Boulevard Park WA | 4,575 | $79K | 28.0% | 4.6% | 2% | B− |
| 2,105 | Leesburg GA | 3,597 | $79K | 17.3% | 2.1% | 7% | B− |
| 2,106 | Long View NC | 5,387 | $47K | 11.3% | 2.5% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | 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 Boulevard Park, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
The towns next door employ 53% of Boulevard Park
The biggest share goes to Seattle (41%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boulevard Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boulevard Park | – | B− | A | 24 min | $78,954 |
| Seattle | 41% | A− | A+ | 26 min | $123,860 |
| Tukwila | 7% | B− | A | 25 min | $78,381 |
| Burien | 5% | B | A+ | 27 min | $91,318 |
| White Center | under 3% | B | A+ | 30 min | $87,189 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Boulevard Park’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 Boulevard Park: questions
What is the median household income in Boulevard Park?
$78,954 (±$4,655) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boulevard Park?
28.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boulevard Park?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boulevard Park work?
2% work in town.
Is Boulevard Park walkable?
Boulevard Park is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boulevard Park without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 28% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boulevard Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boulevard Park
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.