Photo: Callworth360 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Yacolt works elsewhere
95 jobs are based in Yacolt, against 704 working residents. Jobs and income earn Yacolt B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. 6% of workers work from home (Washington 20%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Yacolt, in brief
Yacolt workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 51 minutes each way, against 27 across Washington. Over a year that’s about 391 hours of commuting, 184 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Yacolt is a place people come home to
There are 95 jobs based in Yacolt, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Yacolt has about 1,100 people in it, 35% 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; with 704 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Yacolt’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Yacolt is better than 46% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Yacolt’s grade up (5.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Yacolt’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Yacolt could be anywhere from C to B.
Each way, about 51 minutes from Yacolt
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yacolt workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 624 commuters (the 6% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Yacolt
On a workday 701 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 92 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Yacolt on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
20% of working residents work in Vancouver
Where Yacolt clocks in
20% of workers
11% 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.
What Yacolt’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yacolt, 2013 → 2023: 82 → 95. 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 Yacolt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Yacolt commutes
About 21% 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 Yacolt, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Yacolt is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of 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 664 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 66% 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 4.4% of Yacolt households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yacolt’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,385th of 5,760: where Yacolt ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,383 | Sunray TX | 1,739 | $66K | 8.2% | 2.8% | 18% | B− |
| 2,384 | Woodbranch TX | 1,624 | $86K | 26.6% | 5.0% | <1% | B− |
| 2,385 | Yacolt WA | 1,730 | $85K | 5.8% | 1.7% | <1% | B− |
| 2,386 | Lake Isabella MI | 1,952 | $78K | 5.8% | 6.2% | 1% | B− |
| 2,387 | Inola OK | 1,888 | $59K | 9.0% | 8.0% | 11% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Yacolt, 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 Yacolt: questions
What is the median household income in Yacolt?
$84,740 (±$14,351) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yacolt?
5.8%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yacolt?
51 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yacolt work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vancouver (20%, 18 mi), Battle Ground (11%, 9 mi), Portland (8%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yacolt walkable?
Yacolt is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yacolt without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yacolt, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yacolt
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.