US Post Office-Sedro Woolley Main · Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Sedro-Woolley
About one in seven work in Sedro-Woolley; the top destination outside it is Mount Vernon (12%, 8 miles). The two grades for Sedro-Woolley are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 8% of workers have no commute at all (Washington 20%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Sedro-Woolley and work: the main findings
Where Sedro-Woolley’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sedro-Woolley is better than 35% of U.S. towns, #229 of 285 in Washington. Household income holds Sedro-Woolley’s grade up ($80,885, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sedro-Woolley could be anywhere from C− to B.
Making and building: 36% of jobs based in Sedro-Woolley
4,307 jobs are based in Sedro-Woolley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sedro-Woolley, 2013 → 2023: 3,690 → 4,307. 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 Sedro-Woolley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Sedro-Woolley on a workday afternoon
On a workday 5,379 residents head out to work, 778 work right here, and 3,529 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Sedro-Woolley on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
The towns that employ Sedro-Woolley’s residents
Where Sedro-Woolley clocks in
12% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
How long Sedro-Woolley spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sedro-Woolley workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,467 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far Sedro-Woolley’s workers travel
About 26% 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.
Few in Sedro-Woolley walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sedro-Woolley is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns, #207 of 285 in Washington. Both inputs place Sedro-Woolley near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,962 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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). 4.4% of Sedro-Woolley households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Sedro-Woolley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sedro-Woolley next to U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000: 1,871st of 2,526 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Maltby WA | 10,910 | $185K | 3.9% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | Bothell East WA | 14,578 | $199K | 3.6% | 2.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Snoqualmie WA | 13,640 | $214K | 0.8% | 2.6% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,869 | Port Huron Township MI | 10,665 | $62K | 16.5% | 3.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,870 | Harper Woods MI | 14,860 | $65K | 19.8% | 7.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,871 | Sedro-Woolley WA | 13,308 | $81K | 15.7% | 4.8% | 13% | C+ |
| 1,872 | Plains Township PA | 10,010 | $74K | 16.8% | 7.2% | 15% | C+ |
| 1,873 | Chippewa Falls WI | 15,293 | $58K | 15.4% | 4.0% | 26% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Sedro-Woolley, 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 Sedro-Woolley: questions
What is the median household income in Sedro-Woolley?
$80,885 (±$8,664) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sedro-Woolley?
15.7%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sedro-Woolley?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sedro-Woolley work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Vernon (12%, 8 mi), Burlington (8%, 6 mi), Bellingham (8%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sedro-Woolley walkable?
Sedro-Woolley is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sedro-Woolley without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sedro-Woolley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sedro-Woolley
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.