Middle Fork Nooksack River Bridge · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Deming has 4.3 jobs for every working resident: 645 people commute in to work
Working from home is the commute for 14% of workers (Washington 20%). 656 jobs are based in Deming; 152 of its residents have a job. Only 7% stay in Deming for work; outside it, Bellingham is the main destination (24%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Deming on a workday afternoon
On a workday 141 residents head out to work and 11 work right here.
About 1,100 people are in Deming on a workday afternoon, 89% 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.
Commuting in to Deming: where workers come from
Where Deming clocks in
24% of workers
7% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deming, 2013 → 2023: 353 → 656. 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 Deming’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Deming
of Deming workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 140 commuters (the 14% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Deming
About 26% 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 Deming: questions
What is the poverty rate in Deming?
17.8%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Deming work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bellingham (24%, 12 mi), Seattle (7%, 84 mi), Lynden (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Deming 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 Deming, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deming
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.