Photo: Sea Cow · CC BY-SA 4.0Queets has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any work in Queets itself; outside it, Amanda Park draws the most (20%, 20 miles). 6 jobs are based in Queets, against 25 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Washington has 20%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Queets
On a workday 25 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 36 people are in Queets on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Out of Queets to work: where people go
Where Queets clocks in
20% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 Queets’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Queets, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 6. 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 Queets’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Queets: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Queets workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 16 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Queets
About 72% 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 Queets: questions
What is the poverty rate in Queets?
23.6%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Queets?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Queets work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amanda Park (20%, 20 mi), Albuquerque (4%, 1252 mi), Sedro-Woolley (4%, 119 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Queets 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 Queets, from the people who make the trip.
More of Queets
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.