Photo: Upupa4me from Redmond WA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Ronald has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 2% stay in Ronald for work; outside it, Cle Elum is the main destination (13%, 5 miles). 46 jobs are based in Ronald; 193 of its residents have a job. For 100% of workers, the job is at home, against 20% across Washington.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Ronald
On a workday 190 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Ronald on a workday afternoon, 100% 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.
Where people from Ronald work
Where Ronald clocks in
11% 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 Ronald’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Ronald’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ronald
of Ronald workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Ronald’s commute, mile by mile
About 64% 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 Ronald: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ronald?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ronald work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cle Elum (13%, 5 mi), Seattle (11%, 67 mi), Redmond (8%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ronald, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ronald
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.