Photo: Rising*From*Ashes · CC BY 4.0Oakville has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for <1% of workers, where Washington as a whole has 20%. 142 jobs are based in Oakville, and 273 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in Oakville itself; outside it, Olympia draws the most (10%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Oakville apart
A commute of about 29 minutes in Oakville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oakville workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 457 commuters (the <1% 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.
Oakville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 269 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Oakville on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 Oakville ends
Where Oakville clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Oakville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oakville, 2014 → 2024: 133 → 142. 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 Oakville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Oakville
About 28% 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 Oakville: questions
What is the median household income in Oakville?
$63,893 (±$22,237) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oakville?
19.5%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oakville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. <1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oakville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Olympia (10%, 21 mi), Aberdeen (6%, 29 mi), Tumwater (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Oakville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oakville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oakville
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.