With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Finley works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 11% of workers; Washington has 20%. Employers in Finley report 1,170 jobs; 2,472 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Finley is better than 61% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Finley apart
Finley makes and builds things
69% of the jobs based in Finley are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Finley residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Finley works one town over
41% of working residents work in a town that borders Finley: Kennewick (26%) and Pasco (15%). Next door ↓
Finley has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Finley went from 822 in 2013 to 1,170 in 2023, +42%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Income, poverty and work: Finley’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Finley’s grade up (5.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Finley could be anywhere from C+ to A.
In Finley, 69% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Finley, 2013 → 2023: 822 → 1,170. 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 Finley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Finley
On a workday 2,342 residents head out to work, 130 work right here, and 1,040 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,300 people are in Finley on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
26% of working residents work in Kennewick
Where Finley clocks in
26% of workers
17% of workers
15% 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.
About 28 minutes to work from Finley
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Finley workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,213 commuters (the 11% 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.
The distance from Finley to work
About 20% 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.
Most trips from Finley start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,498 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.0% of Finley households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Finley’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Finley is 1,559th of 3,561 U.S. towns of 3,900 to 7,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Larch Way WA | 4,424 | $160K | 1.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Normandy Park WA | 6,609 | $162K | 4.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 213 | Wollochet WA | 6,689 | $149K | 1.5% | 3.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,557 | Green Lake Township MI | 6,822 | $93K | 8.1% | 3.1% | 6% | B |
| 1,558 | North Manheim Township PA | 4,234 | $88K | 4.4% | 6.4% | 7% | B |
| 1,559 | Finley WA | 5,634 | $92K | 5.1% | 5.8% | 5% | B |
| 1,560 | East Rochester NY | 6,132 | $73K | 7.5% | 5.8% | 7% | B |
| 1,561 | Clearspring Township IN | 4,713 | $88K | 5.9% | 4.4% | 7% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,561 | 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 Finley, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
Next door is work for 41% of Finley
The biggest share goes to Kennewick (26%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Finley’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 Finley: questions
What is the median household income in Finley?
$92,231 (±$15,423) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Finley?
5.1%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Finley?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Finley work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kennewick (26%, 7 mi), Richland (17%, 14 mi), Pasco (15%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Finley walkable?
Finley is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Finley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Finley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Finley
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.