Steliko Ranger Station · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0How Entiat works: jobs, income and commuting
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers (Washington 20%). Entiat grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. About one in ten work in Entiat itself; outside it, Wenatchee draws the most (25%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Entiat: the gist
Entiat and Wenatchee trade workers both ways
Wenatchee is the top workplace for Entiat residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Entiat come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Entiat makes and builds things
50% of the jobs based in Entiat are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Entiat residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 538 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Entiat’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Entiat is better than 42% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Entiat’s grade up (4.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.2%) is left out: Entiat’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, Entiat could be anywhere from C to B.
Where the trip to work from Entiat ends
Where Entiat clocks in
25% of workers
8% 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.
Entiat makes things: 50% of its jobs are in goods
331 jobs are based in Entiat.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Entiat, 2013 → 2023: 204 → 331. 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 Entiat’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Entiat to work
About 36% 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 many people are in Entiat by day
On a workday 494 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 287 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Entiat on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.62 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 2023, primary jobs.
Each way, about 33 minutes from Entiat
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Entiat workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 549 commuters (the 7% 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.
Most of Entiat commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Entiat is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 592 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 80% 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). 5.5% of Entiat households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Entiat’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Entiat comes 2,562nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Yarrow Point WA | 1,143 | $250K | 4.5% | 2.2% | 0% | A+ |
| 23 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,560 | Bracey VA | 1,242 | $65K | 3.1% | 3.6% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,561 | Quogue NY | 1,703 | $90K | 29.5% | 0.0% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,562 | Entiat WA | 1,576 | $76K | 4.9% | 7.2% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,563 | Chester Township MI | 1,354 | $74K | 5.3% | 10.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,564 | Cleveland Township MI | 1,135 | $82K | 7.9% | 1.7% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Entiat, 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 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 Entiat: questions
What is the median household income in Entiat?
$76,111 (±$11,784) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Entiat?
4.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Entiat?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Entiat work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wenatchee (25%, 17 mi), Chelan (8%, 15 mi), East Wenatchee (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Entiat walkable?
Entiat is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Entiat without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Entiat, from the people who make the trip.
More of Entiat
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. 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.