Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company-Box Canyon Viaduct · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 4.0Kahlotus has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 1% work in Kahlotus; the top destination outside it is Pasco (15%, 38 miles). Employers in Kahlotus report 30 jobs, against 81 working residents. Home is the office for 14% 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
Kahlotus by day and by night
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 90 people are in Kahlotus on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 the trip to work from Kahlotus ends
Where Kahlotus clocks in
15% of workers
10% of workers
6% 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 Kahlotus, 2014 → 2024: 26 → 30. 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 Kahlotus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Kahlotus: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kahlotus workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 51 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Kahlotus
About 20% 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 Kahlotus: questions
What is the median household income in Kahlotus?
$94,688 (±$34,611) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kahlotus?
18.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kahlotus?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kahlotus work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pasco (15%, 38 mi), Richland (10%, 43 mi), Kennewick (6%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Kahlotus 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 Kahlotus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kahlotus
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.