Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 2.3 jobs in Naches for every working resident, and 954 people commute in
The two grades for Naches are C− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Employers in Naches report 977 jobs, against 424 working residents. Measured by household income, Naches is behind 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Naches and work: the main findings
Naches and Yakima trade workers both ways
Yakima is the top workplace for Naches residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Naches come from (31% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Naches is where the jobs are
Naches has 977 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,600 people are in town, 51% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Naches makes and builds things
67% of the jobs based in Naches are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Naches residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. 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; with 424 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Naches’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Naches is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Naches’ grade up (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($54,286, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Naches’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Naches could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who travels to work in Naches, and from where
Where Naches clocks in
36% 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 workday in Naches: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 401 residents head out to work and 23 work right here.
About 1,600 people are in Naches on a workday afternoon, 51% more than live here.
2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Naches makes things: 67% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Naches, 2013 → 2023: 816 → 977. 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 Naches’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Naches: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Naches workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 452 commuters (the 9% 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 Naches works
About 25% 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.
Few in Naches walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Naches is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Naches near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 498 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). 3.0% of Naches households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Naches’ commuters take a bus or train.
Naches next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,653rd of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Yarrow Point WA | 1,143 | $250K | 4.5% | 2.2% | 0% | A+ |
| 18 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,651 | Clinton Township IN | 1,292 | $48K | 8.8% | 7.4% | 1% | C− |
| 2,652 | Koehler Township MI | 1,199 | $62K | 10.3% | 4.9% | 1% | C− |
| 2,653 | Naches WA | 1,083 | $54K | 16.5% | 2.8% | 5% | C− |
| 2,654 | Mound City Township KS | 1,328 | $64K | 11.1% | 0.7% | 15% | C− |
| 2,655 | Elmwood Township MI | 1,049 | $67K | 11.6% | 4.5% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Naches, 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 Naches: questions
What is the median household income in Naches?
$54,286 (±$9,850) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Naches?
16.5%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Naches?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Naches work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yakima (36%, 12 mi), Union Gap (5%, 15 mi), Gleed (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Naches walkable?
Naches is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Naches without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Naches, from the people who make the trip.
More of Naches
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.