Falls City Masonic Hall · Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Fall City have higher incomes than those in 97% of U.S. towns
2.2% of residents live below the poverty line; Washington has 9.9%. Jobs and income earn Fall City A+; getting around on foot earns it B−. Home is the office for 40% of workers, against 20% across Washington.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Fall City apart on work
Inside Fall City’s Jobs & income grade
Household income is its strongest input ($177,019, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Fall City’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, Fall City could be anywhere from A to A+.
Getting to work from Fall City takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fall City workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 486 commuters (the 40% 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.
A workday in Fall City: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 983 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 355 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Fall City on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
0.38 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.
19% of working residents work in Seattle
Where Fall City clocks in
19% 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.
The 385 jobs based in Fall City
385 jobs are based in Fall City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fall City, 2013 → 2023: 436 → 385. 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 Fall City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Fall City to work
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.
Few in Fall City walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fall City is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.9% across Washington.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 805 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 87% 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 2.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% 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). 1.8% of Fall City households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fall City’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Fall City is 125th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Yarrow Point WA | 1,143 | $250K | 4.5% | 2.2% | 0% | A+ |
| 24 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Roland AR | 1,147 | $175K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 124 | San Pasqual CA | 1,918 | $123K | 7.4% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 125 | Fall City WA | 1,618 | $177K | 2.2% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| 126 | Tiki Island TX | 1,119 | $129K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 127 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Fall City, 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 Fall City: questions
What is the median household income in Fall City?
$177,019 (±$36,896) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fall City?
2.2%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fall City?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 40% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fall City work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seattle (19%, 21 mi), Bellevue (10%, 12 mi), Redmond (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fall City walkable?
Fall City is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 12.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fall City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fall City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fall City
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.