Photo: Ku7u · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Winlock works elsewhere
At home: 8% of workers have no commute at all (Washington 20%). Employers in Winlock report 509 jobs, and 1,025 of its residents work somewhere. Winlock grades C− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Winlock, in a few figures
Winlock has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Winlock went from 342 in 2013 to 509 in 2023, +49%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Winlock
On income, poverty and job access, Winlock is better than 25% of U.S. towns, #246 of 285 in Washington. Household income holds Winlock’s grade up ($80,451, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.6%) is left out: Winlock’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, Winlock could be anywhere from D to B−.
Jobs in Winlock: what the 509 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winlock, 2013 → 2023: 342 → 509. 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 Winlock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Winlock commutes
About 37% 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.
How a workday changes Winlock
On a workday 957 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 441 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Winlock 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.
9% of working residents work in Chehalis
Where Winlock clocks in
9% of workers
6% 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.
Winlock’s commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winlock workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 815 commuters (the 8% 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.
Most trips from Winlock start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winlock is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns, #186 of 285 in Washington. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.9% across Washington, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 883 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). 5.1% of Winlock households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Winlock’s commuters take a bus or train.
Winlock next to U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,600: 3,809th of 5,278 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 96 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Cathcart WA | 2,064 | $130K | 3.2% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,807 | Washington Township OH | 2,072 | $67K | 14.4% | 0.9% | 0% | C− |
| 3,808 | Sac City IA | 1,993 | $57K | 18.2% | 2.5% | 27% | C− |
| 3,809 | Winlock WA | 2,640 | $80K | 14.9% | 10.6% | 7% | C− |
| 3,810 | Lacon Township IL | 2,284 | $69K | 13.4% | 6.8% | 14% | C− |
| 3,811 | Mount Olive Township IL | 3,019 | $63K | 12.6% | 6.1% | 6% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,278 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Winlock, 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 Winlock: questions
What is the median household income in Winlock?
$80,451 (±$10,489) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winlock?
14.9%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winlock?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winlock work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chehalis (9%, 12 mi), Centralia (6%, 16 mi), Olympia (6%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winlock walkable?
Winlock is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winlock without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winlock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winlock
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.