Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Edison
Edison has 120 jobs for 102 working residents. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where Washington as a whole has 20%. Only 2% work in Edison itself; outside it, Mount Vernon draws the most (15%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Edison
On a workday 100 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 118 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 (1.18 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.
Where Edison goes to work
Where Edison clocks in
15% of workers
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.
Factories, building and farms: 63% of the jobs in Edison
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edison, 2013 → 2023: 67 → 120. 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 Edison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Edison
of Edison workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Edison
About 29% 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.
How Edison compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Edison workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edison | – | — | — | — | — |
| Bow | under 2% | — | — | 15 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Bow: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Edison’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Edison: questions
What is the poverty rate in Edison?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Edison work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Vernon (15%, 12 mi), Bellingham (12%, 13 mi), Seattle (10%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Edison 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 Edison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edison
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.