James Gleed Barn · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0How Gleed works: jobs, income and commuting
At home: 10% of workers have no commute at all (Washington 20%). Gleed grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Only 3% work in Gleed; the top destination outside it is Yakima (38%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Gleed
Jobs in Gleed have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Gleed went from 372 in 2013 to 746 in 2023, +101%. The jobs ↓
Gleed and Yakima trade workers both ways
Yakima is the top workplace for Gleed residents (38%) and also where the most people who work in Gleed come from (38% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Gleed
66% of Gleed residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 32% of the jobs based in Gleed pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Gleed are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 27 across Washington. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Washington worker. Time on the road ↓
Most Gleed residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Gleed earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gleed is better than 50% of U.S. towns, #195 of 285 in Washington. Unemployment holds Gleed’s grade up (3.6%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gleed could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Gleed makes things: 43% of its jobs are in goods
746 jobs are based in Gleed.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gleed, 2013 → 2023: 372 → 746. 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 Gleed’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Out of Gleed to work: where people go
Where Gleed clocks in
38% 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.
About 16 minutes to work from Gleed
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gleed workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,140 commuters (the 10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Gleed
About 24% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Gleed
On a workday 1,108 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 706 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Gleed on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.65 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.
Most trips from Gleed start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gleed is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #267 of 285 in Washington. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,261 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 0.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 48% 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 Gleed households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gleed’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,703 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800, Gleed comes 2,217th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Cathcart WA | 2,064 | $130K | 3.2% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,215 | Upland PA | 3,049 | $62K | 10.0% | 5.8% | 5% | B− |
| 2,216 | Orangeville Township MI | 3,497 | $83K | 6.9% | 5.7% | 4% | B− |
| 2,217 | Gleed WA | 2,844 | $79K | 13.6% | 3.6% | 3% | B− |
| 2,218 | Knoxville IL | 2,810 | $83K | 7.2% | 5.8% | 10% | B− |
| 2,219 | Conesus NY | 2,323 | $80K | 7.0% | 3.5% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Gleed, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
Gleed and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gleed workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gleed | – | B− | C− | 16 min | $78,529 |
| Eschbach | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Eschbach: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gleed’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 Gleed: questions
What is the median household income in Gleed?
$78,529 (±$13,291) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gleed?
13.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gleed?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gleed work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yakima (38%, 5 mi), Selah (5%, 3 mi), Naches (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gleed walkable?
Gleed is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gleed 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 Gleed, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gleed
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.