Photo: Chetsford · CC BY-SA 4.0Work, pay and getting to work in Connell
Home is the office for 10% of workers, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. Connell grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. About one in five work in Connell; the top destination outside it is Pasco (5%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Connell apart on work
Connell trades workers with the towns around it
Connell has about as many jobs (1,019) as working residents (1,082), but they are mostly different people: 864 residents leave for work each day while 801 people come in. Only 21% of the jobs in Connell are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 ↓
Commutes from Connell are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Washington. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Washington worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Connell
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Connell is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #217 of 285 in Washington. The poverty rate holds Connell’s grade up (7.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Connell could be anywhere from D to A−.
Who commutes out of Connell, and who commutes in
On a workday 864 residents head out to work, 218 work right here, and 801 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 (0.94 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.
How far Connell’s workers travel
About 38% 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.
Getting to work from Connell takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Connell workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,410 commuters (the 10% 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.
Out of Connell to work: where people go
Where Connell clocks in
5% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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.
Making and building: 31% of jobs based in Connell
1,019 jobs are based in Connell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Connell, 2013 → 2023: 1,051 → 1,019. 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 Connell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Connell is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Connell is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns, #214 of 285 in Washington. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.9% across Washington.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,564 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 33% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 7.7% of Connell households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Connell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,627 U.S. towns of 3,600 to 6,900, Connell comes 2,268th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Larch Way WA | 4,424 | $160K | 1.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 132 | Normandy Park WA | 6,609 | $162K | 4.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 218 | Wollochet WA | 6,689 | $149K | 1.5% | 3.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,266 | Laguna Vista TX | 3,780 | $64K | 21.8% | 1.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,267 | Desert Palms CA | 6,579 | $80K | 9.6% | 8.3% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,268 | Connell WA | 5,080 | $78K | 7.9% | 4.0% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,269 | West Wendover NV | 4,576 | $49K | 7.4% | 1.0% | 71% | C+ |
| 2,270 | Washington Township IN | 6,498 | $62K | 11.7% | 2.9% | 25% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,627 | 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 Connell, 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 Connell: questions
What is the median household income in Connell?
$77,721 (±$33,866) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Connell?
7.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Connell?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Connell work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pasco (5%, 30 mi), Othello (5%, 19 mi), Seattle (5%, 178 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Connell walkable?
Connell is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Connell 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 Connell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Connell
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.