Camp North Bend · Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0Riverbend’s household incomes are higher than in 95% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income A: better than 93% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 33 minutes each way (Washington 27, U.S. 26). Only 0% work in Riverbend; the top destination outside it is Seattle (25%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Riverbend, in brief
Riverbend is a place people come home to
There are 87 jobs based in Riverbend, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Riverbend has about 610 people in it, 65% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Riverbend’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Riverbend is Seattle, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (302) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Riverbend workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across Washington. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Three in four Riverbend workers earn over $40,000 a year
76% of Riverbend’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data. 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.
What’s behind Riverbend’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Riverbend is better than 93% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($148,269, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Riverbend’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Riverbend could be anywhere from B to A+.
Riverbend quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,223 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 84 people come in from elsewhere.
About 610 people are in Riverbend on a workday afternoon, 65% fewer than live here.
0.07 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Half of Riverbend commutes less than 25 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
About 33 minutes each way, longer than most of Washington
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riverbend workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 784 commuters (the 15% who work from home are left out). Across Washington: 79% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Riverbend makes things: 28% of its jobs are in goods
87 jobs are based in Riverbend. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Riverbend’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riverbend, 2013 → 2023: 98 → 87. 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.
25% of working residents work in Seattle
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Riverbend clocks in
25% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Most trips from Riverbend start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Riverbend is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 923 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 13% 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 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% 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). 0.0% of Riverbend households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Riverbend’s commuters take a bus or train.
Riverbend is 241st of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Riverbend, the top three, the last and three more from Washington.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| 34 | Ames Lake WA | 1,245 | $250K | 1.1% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 239 | Springdale WI | 2,021 | $129K | 2.9% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| 240 | Robesonia PA | 2,181 | $91K | 3.9% | 0.7% | 3% | A |
| 241 | Riverbend WA | 1,748 | $148K | 3.3% | 2.7% | <1% | A |
| 242 | Vinland WI | 1,739 | $91K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 2% | A |
| 243 | Upper Brookville NY | 1,778 | $250K | 0.9% | 5.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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.
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 Riverbend: questions
What is the median household income in Riverbend?
$148,269 (±$77,102) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riverbend?
3.3%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riverbend?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riverbend work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seattle (25%, 30 mi), Bellevue (11%, 21 mi), North Bend (7%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Riverbend walkable?
Riverbend is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Riverbend without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riverbend, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riverbend
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.