With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Burley works elsewhere
Burley has 243 jobs; 647 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Burley A−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Measured by household income, Burley is ahead of 87% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Burley, in brief
Jobs & income in Burley: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Burley is better than 84% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($118,047, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Burley could be anywhere from B− to A+.
About 33 minutes to work from Burley
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Burley workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 965 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.
Burley on a workday afternoon
On a workday 644 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 240 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Burley on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
15% of working residents work in Seattle
Where Burley clocks in
15% of workers
8% 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.
Goods, not services: 74% of the jobs in Burley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Burley, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 243. 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 Burley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Burley, by distance
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.
Most trips from Burley start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Burley is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,105 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 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% 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). 3.4% of Burley households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Burley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Burley next to U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300: 575th of 5,207 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Cathcart WA | 2,064 | $130K | 3.2% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 573 | Locke Township MI | 1,809 | $106K | 5.4% | 2.6% | <1% | A− |
| 574 | Upper Burrell Township PA | 2,114 | $89K | 5.3% | 9.4% | 5% | A− |
| 575 | Burley WA | 2,443 | $118K | 5.6% | 2.7% | <1% | A− |
| 576 | McDonald OH | 3,096 | $82K | 6.7% | 1.4% | 6% | A− |
| 577 | Taylor Township OH | 1,848 | $102K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | 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 Burley, 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 Burley: questions
What is the median household income in Burley?
$118,047 (±$33,406) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Burley?
5.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Burley?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Burley work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seattle (15%, 20 mi), Gig Harbor (8%, 6 mi), Bremerton (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Burley walkable?
Burley is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Burley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Burley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Burley
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.