Most of Inchelium commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 21 jobs in Inchelium for 111 working residents. Hardly any work in Inchelium; the top destination outside it is Spokane (5%, 61 miles). Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, where Washington as a whole has 20%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inchelium on a workday afternoon
On a workday 111 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in Inchelium on a workday afternoon, 20% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Inchelium’s working residents head each day
Where Inchelium clocks in
5% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Inchelium, 2014 → 2024: 79 → 21. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Inchelium’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Inchelium: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Inchelium workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 156 commuters (the 8% 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 Inchelium
About 40% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Inchelium: questions
What is the median household income in Inchelium?
$68,750 (±$34,531) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Inchelium?
20.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Inchelium?
18 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Inchelium work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spokane (5%, 61 mi), Kennewick (4%, 156 mi), Coulee Dam (3%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Inchelium 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 Inchelium, from the people who make the trip.
More of Inchelium
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.