Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Bridgeport commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Bridgeport report 236 jobs for 476 working residents. The two grades for Bridgeport are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Measured by household income, Bridgeport is behind 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Bridgeport, in a few figures
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Bridgeport workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 20% across Washington. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 476 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Bridgeport’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Bridgeport is better than 9% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bridgeport’s grade up (11.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Bridgeport’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bridgeport could be anywhere from D− to C+.
How far Bridgeport’s workers travel
About 35% 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Bridgeport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bridgeport workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 903 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.
Who commutes out of Bridgeport, and who commutes in
On a workday 432 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 192 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Bridgeport on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer 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.
5% of working residents work in Grand Coulee
Where Bridgeport clocks in
5% of workers
4% 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.
Most jobs in Bridgeport are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bridgeport, 2013 → 2023: 71 → 236. 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 Bridgeport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Bridgeport, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bridgeport is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of 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 903 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). 3.7% of Bridgeport households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bridgeport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bridgeport next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100: 4,649th of 5,328 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 89 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 100 | Cathcart WA | 2,064 | $130K | 3.2% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Meadow Glade WA | 2,281 | $129K | 2.4% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,647 | St. Pauls NC | 2,109 | $37K | 37.7% | 8.8% | 7% | D |
| 4,648 | Elkland PA | 1,772 | $55K | 15.7% | 6.5% | 14% | D |
| 4,649 | Bridgeport WA | 2,274 | $52K | 11.9% | 2.9% | 9% | D |
| 4,650 | Christy Township IL | 2,128 | $75K | 20.9% | 10.3% | 4% | D |
| 4,651 | East Tawas MI | 2,662 | $42K | 15.7% | 5.2% | 9% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Bridgeport, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
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 Bridgeport: questions
What is the median household income in Bridgeport?
$52,375 (±$11,997) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bridgeport?
11.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bridgeport?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bridgeport work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Coulee (5%, 31 mi), Brewster (5%, 8 mi), Chelan (4%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bridgeport walkable?
Bridgeport is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bridgeport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bridgeport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bridgeport
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. 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.