Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Cashmere (0.4%) than in 98% of U.S. towns
For 6% of workers, the job is at home, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. Cashmere grades B for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 2.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 94.7 in Seattle.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Cashmere: the gist
Cashmere trades workers with the towns around it
Cashmere has about as many jobs (1,804) as working residents (1,620), but they are mostly different people: 1,342 residents leave for work each day while 1,526 people come in. Only 15% of the jobs in Cashmere are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Cashmere and Wenatchee trade workers both ways
Wenatchee is the top workplace for Cashmere residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Cashmere come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Cashmere: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cashmere is better than 58% of U.S. towns, #161 of 285 in Washington. Unemployment holds Cashmere’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cashmere could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Cashmere on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,342 residents head out to work, 278 work right here, and 1,526 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.11 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
26% of working residents work in Wenatchee
Where Cashmere clocks in
26% 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.
What Cashmere’s employers do
1,804 jobs are based in Cashmere.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cashmere, 2013 → 2023: 1,858 → 1,804. 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 Cashmere’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Cashmere, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cashmere workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,509 commuters (the 6% 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 Cashmere’s workers travel
About 29% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Cashmere
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cashmere is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns, #30 of 285 in Washington. Both inputs place Cashmere 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 1,598 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 73% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 73% 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 Cashmere households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Cashmere’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cashmere is 1,848th of 4,593 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Larch Way WA | 4,424 | $160K | 1.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 109 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,846 | Elyria Township OH | 3,220 | $62K | 4.6% | 5.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,847 | Franklin Township PA | 3,864 | $83K | 3.1% | 8.6% | 5% | B |
| 1,848 | Cashmere WA | 3,326 | $64K | 7.4% | 0.4% | 17% | B |
| 1,849 | Franklin Township IN | 2,473 | $72K | 9.7% | 0.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,850 | Wayne Township IN | 3,889 | $71K | 11.3% | 2.2% | 14% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Cashmere, 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 Cashmere: questions
What is the median household income in Cashmere?
$64,053 (±$6,211) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cashmere?
7.4%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cashmere?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cashmere work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wenatchee (26%, 8 mi), Leavenworth (8%, 11 mi), Seattle (4%, 88 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cashmere walkable?
Cashmere is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cashmere without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 73% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cashmere, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cashmere
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.