Cabin Creek Historic District · Photo: Kellejr · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Easton earns its living
A typical one-way commute from Easton lasts 62 minutes (Washington 27, U.S. 26). Hardly any work in Easton itself; outside it, Seattle draws the most (13%, 62 miles). For 13% of workers, the job is at home, where Washington as a whole has 20%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Easton for work, and who comes in
On a workday 190 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 138 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.
0.73 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Out of Easton to work: where people go
Where Easton clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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.
70% of the jobs in Easton pay over $3,333 a month
139 jobs are based in Easton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Easton, 2014 → 2024: 7 → 139. 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 Easton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Easton, about 62 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 19.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Easton workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 191 commuters (the 13% 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.
Where in the region Easton works
About 55% 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.
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 Easton: questions
What is the median household income in Easton?
$112,500 (±$57,785) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Easton?
5.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Easton?
62 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Easton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seattle (13%, 62 mi), Cle Elum (10%, 10 mi), Ellensburg (6%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Easton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Easton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Easton
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.