Edgar Rock Lodge · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Cliffdell
Commuters spend 40 minutes getting to work on average; the Washington average is 27, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. Hardly any stay in Cliffdell for work; outside it, Yakima is the main destination (35%, 33 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Cliffdell, and who commutes in
On a workday 43 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 47 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 (1.09 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.
Commuting out of Cliffdell: the destinations
Where Cliffdell clocks in
35% 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.
The kinds of work in Cliffdell
47 jobs are based in Cliffdell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cliffdell, 2013 → 2023: 42 → 47. 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 Cliffdell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 40 minutes from Cliffdell
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cliffdell workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 97 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.
The distance from Cliffdell to work
About 24% 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 Cliffdell: questions
What is the median household income in Cliffdell?
$127,695 (±$25,102) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cliffdell?
0.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cliffdell?
40 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cliffdell work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yakima (35%, 33 mi), Ahtanum (7%, 32 mi), Terrace Heights (7%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cliffdell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cliffdell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cliffdell
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.