Photo: afiler · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Wilbur works elsewhere
For 10% of workers, the job is at home, where Washington as a whole has 20%. There are 187 jobs in Wilbur, and 370 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten work in Wilbur itself; outside it, Grand Coulee draws the most (14%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Wilbur stands out on work
How many miles Wilbur commutes
About 44% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Wilbur
On a workday 332 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 149 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Wilbur on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
The places Wilbur commutes to
Where Wilbur clocks in
14% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
The kinds of work in Wilbur
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wilbur, 2013 → 2023: 199 → 187. 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 Wilbur’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Wilbur spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wilbur workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 229 commuters (the 10% 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 Wilbur: questions
What is the median household income in Wilbur?
$55,625 (±$10,168) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wilbur?
27.1%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wilbur?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wilbur work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grand Coulee (14%, 18 mi), Spokane (6%, 60 mi), Creston (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wilbur without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wilbur, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wilbur
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.