Photo: Steven Pavlov · CC BY-SA 3.0Starbuck has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 20% for Washington as a whole. Starbuck has 20 jobs; 50 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Starbuck; the top destination outside it is Dayton (24%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Starbuck, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Starbuck on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Starbuck work
Where Starbuck clocks in
24% of workers
20% of workers
6% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Starbuck, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 20. 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 Starbuck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 52 minutes from Starbuck
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Starbuck workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 40 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.
How far it is to work from Starbuck
About 27% 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 Starbuck: questions
What is the median household income in Starbuck?
$61,250 (±$34,489) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Starbuck?
24.7%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Starbuck?
52 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Starbuck work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dayton (24%, 16 mi), Walla Walla (20%, 33 mi), Spokane (6%, 86 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Starbuck without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Starbuck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Starbuck
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.