Emery Farmstead · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0There are 1.9 jobs in Carlsborg for every working resident, and 803 people commute in
Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns. 829 jobs are based in Carlsborg for 447 working residents. Carlsborg grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Carlsborg, in brief
Carlsborg is where the jobs are
Carlsborg has 829 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 ↓
Carlsborg makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Carlsborg are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Carlsborg residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 15%. The jobs ↓
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 447 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Carlsborg’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Carlsborg is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Carlsborg’s grade up (13.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($50,787, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.8%) is left out: Carlsborg’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, Carlsborg could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Who leaves Carlsborg for work, and who comes in
On a workday 421 residents head out to work and 26 work right here.
About 1,600 people are in Carlsborg on a workday afternoon, 31% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Carlsborg
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.
In Carlsborg, 36% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carlsborg, 2013 → 2023: 636 → 829. 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 Carlsborg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Carlsborg, and from where
Where Carlsborg clocks in
15% of workers
13% 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.
A commute of about 23 minutes in Carlsborg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carlsborg workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 358 commuters (the 7% 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.
Driving is how Carlsborg gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carlsborg is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 384 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 2.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 68% 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). 8.5% of Carlsborg households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Carlsborg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Carlsborg places 3,876th of 4,866 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Yarrow Point WA | 1,143 | $250K | 4.5% | 2.2% | 0% | A+ |
| 21 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,874 | Brownington VT | 1,016 | $76K | 21.5% | 4.6% | 1% | D |
| 3,875 | Bouse AZ | 1,203 | $48K | 8.9% | 4.5% | 1% | D |
| 3,876 | Carlsborg WA | 1,231 | $51K | 13.6% | 0.8% | 6% | D |
| 3,877 | Zebulon GA | 1,358 | $50K | 24.3% | 11.0% | 7% | D |
| 3,878 | Granite OK | 1,609 | $60K | 12.7% | 5.0% | 12% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Carlsborg, 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 Carlsborg: questions
What is the median household income in Carlsborg?
$50,787 (±$17,267) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carlsborg?
13.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carlsborg?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carlsborg work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sequim (15%, 4 mi), Port Angeles (13%, 13 mi), Seattle (8%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carlsborg walkable?
Carlsborg is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carlsborg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carlsborg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carlsborg
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.