Photo: Tedder · CC BY-SA 4.0At 7.7%, unemployment in Quincy is higher than in 87% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Quincy are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Home is the office for 1% of workers (Washington 20%). About one in three stay in Quincy for work; outside it, Wenatchee is the main destination (8%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Quincy in brief
Few Quincy workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 20% across Washington. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Quincy are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 27 across Washington. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Washington worker. Time on the road ↓
Quincy has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Quincy went from 2,465 in 2013 to 4,076 in 2023, +65%. The jobs ↓
Quincy’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Quincy is Wenatchee, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (238) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Quincy makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Quincy are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Quincy residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 43%. 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.
Where Quincy’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Quincy is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #225 of 285 in Washington. The poverty rate holds Quincy’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Quincy could be anywhere from C− to A−.
About 18 minutes each way for Quincy’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quincy workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,689 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.
Goods jobs make up 36% of work in Quincy
4,076 jobs are based in Quincy.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quincy, 2013 → 2023: 2,465 → 4,076. 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 Quincy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Quincy works
About 23% 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 daily commute in and out of Quincy
On a workday 1,983 residents head out to work, 1,130 work right here, and 2,946 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,500 people are in Quincy on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.31 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.
Commuting out of Quincy: the destinations
Where Quincy clocks in
8% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
Most trips from Quincy start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Quincy is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #181 of 285 in Washington. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% of 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 3,728 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 28% 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). 2.4% of Quincy households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Quincy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Quincy is 2,054th of 2,922 U.S. towns of 6,000 to 11,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Maltby WA | 10,910 | $185K | 3.9% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | Normandy Park WA | 6,609 | $162K | 4.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 218 | Wollochet WA | 6,689 | $149K | 1.5% | 3.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,052 | Atlantic IA | 6,676 | $61K | 17.4% | 1.1% | 43% | C+ |
| 2,053 | Church Hill TN | 7,297 | $66K | 6.4% | 13.9% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,054 | Quincy WA | 8,510 | $88K | 6.2% | 7.7% | 36% | C+ |
| 2,055 | Emmett ID | 8,900 | $59K | 18.3% | 2.1% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,056 | Sweetwater TN | 6,706 | $45K | 14.6% | 2.7% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,922 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Quincy, 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 Quincy: questions
What is the median household income in Quincy?
$87,902 (±$13,248) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quincy?
6.2%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quincy?
18 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quincy work?
36% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wenatchee (8%, 26 mi), Moses Lake (4%, 28 mi), Ephrata (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quincy walkable?
Quincy is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 10.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quincy without a car?
1% 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 Quincy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quincy
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.