Earl Oatman House · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Lofall works elsewhere
Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns. There are 173 jobs in Lofall, and 762 of its residents work somewhere. Lofall grades A− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Lofall, in brief
How Lofall earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lofall is better than 80% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lofall’s grade up (0.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Lofall’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lofall could be anywhere from B+ to A−.
The daily flow of workers through Lofall
On a workday 759 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 170 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Lofall on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
18% of working residents work in Poulsbo
Where Lofall clocks in
18% of workers
16% of workers
8% 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.
A place that makes things: 55% of Lofall’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lofall, 2013 → 2023: 76 → 173. 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 Lofall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of Washington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lofall workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 601 commuters (the 26% 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 Lofall
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.
The commute in Lofall is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lofall is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 812 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). 1.3% of Lofall households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Lofall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lofall is 647th of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | McMillin WA | 1,348 | $141K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 645 | Sedgwick KS | 1,575 | $93K | 5.9% | 0.4% | 3% | A− |
| 646 | Otis MA | 1,610 | $109K | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10% | A− |
| 647 | Lofall WA | 1,800 | $114K | 0.8% | 5.3% | <1% | A− |
| 648 | Kamas UT | 2,086 | $97K | 2.3% | 0.5% | 17% | A− |
| 649 | Cuba City WI | 2,103 | $75K | 2.1% | 0.4% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | 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 Lofall, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
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 Lofall: questions
What is the median household income in Lofall?
$113,750 (±$20,474) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lofall?
0.8%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lofall?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lofall work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Poulsbo (18%, 5 mi), Seattle (16%, 19 mi), Bremerton (8%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lofall walkable?
Lofall is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lofall without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lofall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lofall
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.