Photo: Will Maupin · CC BY-SA 4.0Suncrest has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
459 jobs are based in Suncrest for 2,259 working residents. For jobs and income Suncrest is better than 51% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (D). Measured by household income, Suncrest is ahead of 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Suncrest in brief
Suncrest workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 27 across Washington. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Suncrest and Spokane trade workers both ways
Spokane is the top workplace for Suncrest residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Suncrest come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Suncrest is a place people come home to
There are 459 jobs based in Suncrest, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Suncrest has about 3,500 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
The figures behind Suncrest’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Suncrest’s grade up (5.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Suncrest could be anywhere from C to B+.
About 39 minutes each way, longer than most of Washington
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Suncrest workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,991 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
36% of working residents work in Spokane
Where Suncrest clocks in
36% of workers
10% of workers
2% 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.
A workday in Suncrest: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,164 residents head out to work, 95 work right here, and 364 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,500 people are in Suncrest on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
In Suncrest, 34% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Suncrest, 2013 → 2023: 264 → 459. 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 Suncrest’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Suncrest commutes less than 15 miles
About 24% 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.
For most of Suncrest, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,329 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.0% of Suncrest households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Suncrest’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,963rd of 3,651: where Suncrest ranks among U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Larch Way WA | 4,424 | $160K | 1.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 136 | Normandy Park WA | 6,609 | $162K | 4.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 227 | Wollochet WA | 6,689 | $149K | 1.5% | 3.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,961 | Washington Township OH | 5,113 | $64K | 6.0% | 4.1% | 6% | B− |
| 1,962 | Castroville CA | 6,720 | $89K | 18.4% | 4.2% | 8% | B− |
| 1,963 | Suncrest WA | 5,345 | $101K | 5.0% | 4.7% | 4% | B− |
| 1,964 | Neptune City NJ | 4,591 | $89K | 16.9% | 5.8% | 4% | B− |
| 1,965 | Viroqua WI | 4,435 | $67K | 7.7% | 2.9% | 37% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,651 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Suncrest, 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 Suncrest: questions
What is the median household income in Suncrest?
$100,952 (±$12,534) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Suncrest?
5.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Suncrest?
39 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Suncrest work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spokane (36%, 14 mi), Spokane Valley (10%, 21 mi), Seattle (2%, 221 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Suncrest walkable?
Suncrest is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Suncrest without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Suncrest, from the people who make the trip.
More of Suncrest
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.