Five Corners has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For jobs and income Five Corners is better than 75% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (A−). Five Corners has 3,023 jobs for 9,735 working residents. Measured by household income, Five Corners is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Five Corners apart on work
A lot of Five Corners workers cross into Oregon
23% of Five Corners workers work outside Washington, the Census survey finds. In the commute data, Portland (16%) and Gresham (2%) are among the top workplaces. The commute map ↓
Five Corners and Vancouver trade workers both ways
Vancouver is the top workplace for Five Corners residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Five Corners come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Five Corners has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Five Corners went from 1,758 in 2013 to 3,023 in 2023, +72%. The jobs ↓
Five Corners empties out on a workday
About 14,000 people are in Five Corners on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than the 21,000 who live here: 9,500 head out to work and 2,800 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Five Corners
Job access by car holds Five Corners’ grade up; unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Five Corners could be anywhere from B to A.
32% of working residents work in Vancouver
Where Five Corners clocks in
32% of workers
4% 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.
What Five Corners’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Five Corners, 2013 → 2023: 1,758 → 3,023. 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 Five Corners’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Five Corners by day and by night
On a workday 9,538 residents head out to work, 197 work right here, and 2,826 people come in from elsewhere.
About 14,000 people are in Five Corners on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
About 26 minutes each way, about the WA average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Five Corners workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9,205 commuters (the 14% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Five Corners
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Five Corners
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% of 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 10,660 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 73% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 14% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 76% 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). 4.0% of Five Corners households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Five Corners’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Five Corners is 725th of 1,787 U.S. towns of 15,000 to 29,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Mercer Island WA | 25,422 | $219K | 3.8% | 3.0% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Bothell West WA | 22,029 | $153K | 3.0% | 2.9% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 208 | Cottage Lake WA | 22,518 | $213K | 3.2% | 4.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 723 | Whitman MA | 15,526 | $109K | 7.9% | 5.2% | 6% | A− |
| 724 | Oxon Hill MD | 17,893 | $93K | 6.2% | 5.9% | 2% | A− |
| 725 | Five Corners WA | 21,194 | $106K | 8.6% | 4.4% | 2% | A− |
| 726 | Griffith IN | 16,137 | $77K | 7.1% | 3.8% | 5% | A− |
| 727 | Stonington CT | 18,832 | $115K | 7.0% | 3.5% | 20% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,787 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Five Corners, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
Bordering towns draw 34% of Five Corners’ workers
The biggest share goes to Vancouver (32%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Five Corners workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five Corners | – | A− | A− | 26 min | $106,192 |
| Vancouver | 32% | B | A | 23 min | $81,338 |
| Barberton | under 2% | A | C+ | 25 min | $133,990 |
| Orchards | 2% | B | B+ | 26 min | $100,146 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Five Corners’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 Five Corners: questions
What is the median household income in Five Corners?
$106,192 (±$9,689) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Five Corners?
8.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Five Corners?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Five Corners work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vancouver (32%, 4 mi), Portland (16%, 11 mi), Seattle (4%, 134 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Five Corners walkable?
Five Corners is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Five Corners without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 14% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Five Corners, from the people who make the trip.
More of Five Corners
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.