Photo: publichall · CC BY-SA 3.0Harrington has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Employers in Harrington report 71 jobs, against 151 working residents. Only 6% work in Harrington; the top destination outside it is Odessa (17%, 23 miles). For 11% of workers, the job is at home, against 20% across Washington.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Harrington quiets down on a workday
On a workday 142 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 62 people come in from elsewhere.
About 380 people are in Harrington on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Where people from Harrington work
Where Harrington clocks in
17% of workers
13% of workers
5% 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 kinds of work in Harrington
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harrington, 2013 → 2023: 73 → 71. 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 Harrington’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Harrington, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harrington workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 125 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 Harrington to work
About 29% 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 Harrington: questions
What is the median household income in Harrington?
$40,444 (±$3,651) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harrington?
26.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harrington?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harrington work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Odessa (17%, 23 mi), Spokane (13%, 40 mi), Davenport (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Harrington without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harrington, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harrington
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.