Photo: Robert Ashworth from Bellingham, WA., USA · CC BY 2.0Jobs and the daily commute in Tekoa
Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average; the Washington average is 27, the U.S. 26. 7% of workers work from home; Washington has 20%. Only 6% work in Tekoa; the top destination outside it is St. John (11%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Tekoa
Short hops and long hauls from Tekoa
About 29% 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.
A workday in Tekoa: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 228 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 140 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Tekoa on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.64 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.
Where Tekoa’s working residents head each day
Where Tekoa clocks in
11% of workers
5% 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.
Tekoa is a services town
154 jobs are based in Tekoa.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tekoa, 2013 → 2023: 216 → 154. 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 Tekoa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Tekoa
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tekoa workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 209 commuters (the 7% 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.
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 Tekoa: questions
What is the median household income in Tekoa?
$46,250 (±$15,621) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tekoa?
12.2%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tekoa?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tekoa work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. John (11%, 26 mi), Colfax (10%, 25 mi), Spokane (5%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tekoa without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tekoa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tekoa
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.