Photo: SounderBruce · CC BY-SA 4.0Where Lind earns its living
10% of workers have no commute at all, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. Only 5% stay in Lind for work; outside it, Ritzville is the main destination (8%, 16 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 32 minutes, where Washington has 27 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Lind
On a workday 168 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Lind on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 the trip to work from Lind ends
Where Lind clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
What the 125 jobs in Lind are
125 jobs are based in Lind.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lind, 2013 → 2023: 61 → 125. 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 Lind’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Lind: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lind workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 213 commuters (the 10% 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.
Where in the region Lind works
About 56% 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 Lind: questions
What is the median household income in Lind?
$67,981 (±$28,271) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lind?
3.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lind?
32 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lind work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ritzville (8%, 16 mi), Moses Lake (6%, 33 mi), Spokane (6%, 73 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lind without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lind, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lind
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.