Photo: Publichall at English Wikipedia · Public domainConway draws 172 commuters a day, with 4.2 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. 172 jobs are based in Conway, against 41 working residents. Hardly any work in Conway itself; outside it, Seattle draws the most (12%, 50 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Conway, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 41 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 180 people are in Conway on a workday afternoon, 285% more 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 Conway’s workforce comes from
Where Conway clocks in
12% of workers
10% 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.
72% of the jobs in Conway pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conway, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 172. 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 Conway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Conway
of Conway workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 46 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 commute from Conway, by distance
About 41% 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 Conway: questions
What is the poverty rate in Conway?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Conway work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seattle (12%, 50 mi), Mount Vernon (10%, 6 mi), Renton (7%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Conway 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 Conway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conway
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.