Photo: Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA · CC BY 2.0Most of Chelan Falls commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers (Washington 20%). Employers in Chelan Falls report 33 jobs, and 164 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% stay in Chelan Falls for work; outside it, Chelan is the main destination (36%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Chelan Falls quiets down on a workday
On a workday 161 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Chelan Falls on a workday afternoon, 56% 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.
Where Chelan Falls’ working residents head each day
Where Chelan Falls clocks in
36% of workers
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.
A place that makes things: 97% of Chelan Falls’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chelan Falls, 2013 → 2023: 34 → 33. 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 Chelan Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Chelan Falls
of Chelan Falls workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 122 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.
How many miles Chelan Falls commutes
About 30% 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.
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 Chelan Falls: questions
What is the poverty rate in Chelan Falls?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Chelan Falls work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chelan (36%, 3 mi), Wenatchee (5%, 30 mi), Kent (4%, 108 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chelan Falls without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chelan Falls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chelan Falls
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.