O.J. Gendron Ranch · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 3.0Moxee has lower unemployment (0.8%) than 96% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Moxee A−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Measured by household income, Moxee is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns. Only 7% work in Moxee; the top destination outside it is Yakima (38%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Moxee: the gist
Moxee trades workers with the towns around it
Moxee has about as many jobs (1,611) as working residents (1,775), but they are mostly different people: 1,659 residents leave for work each day while 1,495 people come in. Only 7% of the jobs in Moxee are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Moxee and Yakima trade workers both ways
Yakima is the top workplace for Moxee residents (38%) and also where the most people who work in Moxee come from (33% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Moxee has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Moxee went from 1,009 in 2013 to 1,611 in 2023, +60%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Moxee are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Washington. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Washington worker. Time on the road ↓
Moxee makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Moxee are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Moxee residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Moxee gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Moxee is better than 82% of U.S. towns, #65 of 285 in Washington. Unemployment is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Moxee could be anywhere from B+ to A.
How many people are in Moxee by day
On a workday 1,659 residents head out to work, 116 work right here, and 1,495 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.91 per resident).
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 people from Moxee work
Where Moxee clocks in
38% 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.
In Moxee, 35% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,611 jobs are based in Moxee.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moxee, 2013 → 2023: 1,009 → 1,611. 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 Moxee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Washington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moxee workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,976 commuters (the 16% 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.
The distance from Moxee to work
About 22% 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.
The commute in Moxee is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moxee is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns, #258 of 285 in Washington. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.9% across Washington.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,354 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). 1.5% of Moxee households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moxee’s commuters take a bus or train.
Moxee next to U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,400: 726th of 3,867 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Larch Way WA | 4,424 | $160K | 1.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 159 | Lake Holm WA | 3,555 | $177K | 1.1% | 3.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 229 | Maple Heights-Lake Desire WA | 4,113 | $143K | 6.0% | 1.3% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 724 | Sergeant Bluff IA | 5,324 | $123K | 9.5% | 1.7% | 13% | A− |
| 725 | Holts Summit MO | 4,773 | $85K | 4.8% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| 726 | Moxee WA | 4,765 | $101K | 7.8% | 0.8% | 7% | A− |
| 727 | Hopewell Township PA | 5,600 | $122K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 4% | A− |
| 728 | Baxter Village SC | 4,542 | $152K | 9.2% | 4.1% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,867 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Moxee, 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 Moxee: questions
What is the median household income in Moxee?
$100,512 (±$5,303) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moxee?
7.8%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moxee?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moxee work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yakima (38%, 8 mi), Union Gap (5%, 4 mi), Selah (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moxee walkable?
Moxee is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moxee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moxee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moxee
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.