Household incomes in Tieton are lower than in 74% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 18.0% of residents (Washington 9.9%). Tieton grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers; Washington has 20%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Tieton: the figures worth knowing
Tieton makes and builds things
87% of the jobs based in Tieton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Tieton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 40%. The jobs ↓
Tieton and Yakima trade workers both ways
Yakima is the top workplace for Tieton residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Tieton come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Jobs in Tieton have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Tieton went from 328 in 2013 to 672 in 2023, +105%. The jobs ↓
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; with 525 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Tieton
On income, poverty and job access, Tieton is better than 17% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Tieton’s grade.
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Tieton’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tieton could be anywhere from D to B−.
87% of the jobs in Tieton make or build things
672 jobs are based in Tieton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tieton, 2013 → 2023: 328 → 672. 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 Tieton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
28% of working residents work in Yakima
Where Tieton clocks in
28% 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.
Tieton by day and by night
On a workday 488 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 635 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.28 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
From Tieton, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tieton workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 600 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.
Half of Tieton commutes less than 13 miles
About 23% 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.
In Tieton, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tieton is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 2.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 645 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). 7.3% of Tieton households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tieton’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,001st of 5,381: where Tieton ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Woodway WA | 1,316 | $205K | 2.1% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Fife Heights WA | 1,446 | $157K | 2.4% | 4.5% | 1% | A+ |
| 33 | Ames Lake WA | 1,245 | $250K | 1.1% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,999 | Pittsfield Township PA | 1,232 | $65K | 12.9% | 5.6% | 2% | C− |
| 4,000 | Union Point GA | 1,856 | $62K | 13.1% | 0.6% | 6% | C− |
| 4,001 | Tieton WA | 1,657 | $60K | 18.0% | 3.2% | 7% | C− |
| 4,002 | Iroquois Township IN | 1,261 | $62K | 10.9% | 13.4% | 5% | C− |
| 4,003 | Springfield Township OH | 1,947 | $61K | 12.7% | 1.9% | 15% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Tieton, 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 Tieton: questions
What is the median household income in Tieton?
$60,144 (±$14,847) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tieton?
18.0%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tieton?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tieton work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yakima (28%, 12 mi), Cowiche (6%, 3 mi), Selah (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tieton walkable?
Tieton is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 2.7 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tieton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tieton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tieton
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.