With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Everson works elsewhere
For jobs and income Everson is better than 66% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (C+). Everson has 605 jobs, against 1,337 working residents. 6% of workers have no commute at all (Washington 20%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Everson, in brief
Everson and Bellingham trade workers both ways
Bellingham is the top workplace for Everson residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Everson come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Everson makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Everson are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Everson residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Everson: the grade in detail
Unemployment holds Everson’s grade up (2.0%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Everson could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
27% of working residents work in Bellingham
Where Everson clocks in
27% of workers
10% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 42% of the jobs in Everson
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Everson, 2013 → 2023: 535 → 605. 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 Everson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Everson by day and by night
On a workday 1,295 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 563 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Everson on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer 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.
How long Everson spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Everson workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,287 commuters (the 6% 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 Everson works
About 23% 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.
Everson is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,373 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.7% of Everson households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Everson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Everson is 1,383rd of 4,453 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Lake Holm WA | 3,555 | $177K | 1.1% | 3.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,381 | West Bishop CA | 2,551 | $115K | 5.9% | 2.8% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,382 | Carter Lake IA | 3,670 | $85K | 11.5% | 3.8% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,383 | Everson WA | 3,254 | $80K | 5.5% | 2.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,384 | Lordstown OH | 3,303 | $66K | 8.1% | 2.8% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,385 | Madison Township OH | 3,549 | $77K | 9.3% | 2.2% | 12% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Everson, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
Next door to Everson
The biggest share goes to Nooksack (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Everson’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 Everson: questions
What is the median household income in Everson?
$80,250 (±$12,977) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Everson?
5.5%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Everson?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Everson work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bellingham (27%, 12 mi), Lynden (10%, 5 mi), Seattle (5%, 89 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Everson walkable?
Everson is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Everson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Everson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Everson
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.