Mount Spokane Vista House · Photo: Xnatedawgx · CC BY-SA 4.0Green Bluff has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Green Bluff has 78 jobs for 270 working residents. Hardly any work in Green Bluff itself; outside it, Spokane draws the most (40%, 13 miles). Commuters spend 33 minutes getting to work on average; the Washington average is 27, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Green Bluff stands out on work
Green Bluff and Spokane trade workers both ways
Spokane is the top workplace for Green Bluff residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Green Bluff come from (42% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Green Bluff is a place people come home to
There are 78 jobs based in Green Bluff, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Green Bluff has about 130 people in it, 59% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Green Bluff workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across Washington. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 270 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Green Bluff goes to work
Where Green Bluff clocks in
40% of workers
14% 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.
Who commutes out of Green Bluff, and who commutes in
On a workday 269 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Green Bluff on a workday afternoon, 59% 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 Green Bluff spends getting to work: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Green Bluff workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 116 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.
Goods jobs make up 38% of work in Green Bluff
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Green Bluff, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 78. 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 Green Bluff’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Green Bluff commutes less than 11 miles
About 15% 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.
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 Green Bluff: questions
What is the median household income in Green Bluff?
$116,250 (±$32,951) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Green Bluff?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Green Bluff?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Green Bluff work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spokane (40%, 13 mi), Spokane Valley (14%, 11 mi), Mead (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Green Bluff without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Green Bluff, from the people who make the trip.
More of Green Bluff
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.