Photo: Robert Ashworth from Bellingham, WA., USA · CC BY 2.0Work, pay and getting to work in Davenport
10% of workers work from home, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. The two grades for Davenport are C− for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.7 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 94.7 in Seattle.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Davenport in brief
Davenport’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Davenport is Spokane, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (92) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% 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 ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 664 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Davenport’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Davenport is better than 21% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Davenport’s grade up ($76,849, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.1%) is left out: Davenport’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Davenport could be anywhere from D to C+.
Davenport’s commute, mile by mile
About 33% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
How many people are in Davenport by day
On a workday 500 residents head out to work, 164 work right here, and 606 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 (1.16 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
14% of working residents work in Spokane
Where Davenport clocks in
14% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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 work there is in Davenport: 770 jobs
770 jobs are based in Davenport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Davenport, 2014 → 2024: 870 → 770. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Davenport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Davenport: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Davenport workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 609 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Davenport
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Davenport is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Davenport 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 677 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 57% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 5.8% of Davenport households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Davenport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Davenport comes 4,013th 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 100 | McMillin WA | 1,348 | $141K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,011 | Lehigh Township PA | 1,885 | $56K | 14.4% | 12.4% | 4% | C− |
| 4,012 | Greenup IL | 1,330 | $51K | 9.2% | 3.3% | 18% | C− |
| 4,013 | Davenport WA | 1,818 | $77K | 13.9% | 7.1% | 25% | C− |
| 4,014 | Huron NY | 1,823 | $90K | 24.1% | 4.8% | 17% | C− |
| 4,015 | Van Vleck TX | 1,763 | $59K | 10.6% | 0.0% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Davenport, 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 2024, 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 Davenport: questions
What is the median household income in Davenport?
$76,849 (±$11,711) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Davenport?
13.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Davenport?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Davenport work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spokane (14%, 33 mi), Spokane Valley (6%, 43 mi), Airway Heights (3%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Davenport walkable?
Davenport is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 15.4 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Davenport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 57% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Davenport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Davenport
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.