Home School · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Home has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Home itself; outside it, Tacoma draws the most (13%, 16 miles). Employers in Home report 49 jobs, and 489 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Home is better than 33% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 7% 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 Home apart
Home workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 50 minutes each way, against 27 across Washington. Over a year that’s about 383 hours of commuting, 176 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Home is a place people come home to
There are 49 jobs based in Home, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Home has about 1,200 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. 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; with 489 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Home’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Home’s grade up (5.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Home’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Home could be anywhere from D to B+.
From Home, about 50 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Home workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 520 commuters (the 17% 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.
How many people are in Home by day
On a workday 486 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 46 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Home on a workday afternoon, 26% 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 Home goes to work
Where Home clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Home: what the 49 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Home, 2013 → 2023: 127 → 49. 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 Home’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Home goes to work
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 of Home commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 623 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 Home households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Home’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,381 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200, Home comes 2,990th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| 33 | Ames Lake WA | 1,245 | $250K | 1.1% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,988 | Boone Township IN | 1,378 | $62K | 7.9% | 4.3% | 8% | C |
| 2,989 | Randolph ME | 1,780 | $67K | 15.7% | 2.5% | 4% | C |
| 2,990 | Home WA | 1,665 | $65K | 5.5% | 3.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,991 | Cameron WI | 1,834 | $62K | 8.9% | 2.5% | 8% | C |
| 2,992 | Pulteney NY | 1,240 | $69K | 6.8% | 3.8% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Home, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
Around Home: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Key Center (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Home workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | – | C | D | 50 min | $64,884 |
| Longbranch | under 3% | C | D− | 46 min | $95,768 |
| Key Center | 4% | B− | C | 36 min | $105,781 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Home’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 Home: questions
What is the median household income in Home?
$64,884 (±$40,309) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Home?
5.5%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Home?
50 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Home work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tacoma (13%, 16 mi), Seattle (9%, 31 mi), Gig Harbor (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Home walkable?
Home is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Home 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 Home, from the people who make the trip.
More of Home
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.