Teapot Dome Service Station · Photo: Iflorea · CC BY-SA 4.0Zillah has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
4% of workers work from home, against 20% across Washington. 749 jobs are based in Zillah for 1,308 working residents. For jobs and income Zillah is better than 49% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Zillah: the gist
Few Zillah workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 20% across Washington. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Zillah than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Zillah fell from 1,030 in 2014 to 749 in 2024, −27%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Zillah
The poverty rate holds Zillah’s grade up (6.5%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.4%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Zillah could be anywhere from C to A−.
Getting to work from Zillah takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Zillah workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,263 commuters (the 4% 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 kinds of work in Zillah
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Zillah, 2014 → 2024: 1,030 → 749. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Zillah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Zillah on a workday
On a workday 1,186 residents head out to work, 122 work right here, and 627 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Zillah on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 2024, primary jobs.
19% of working residents work in Yakima
Where Zillah clocks in
19% 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.
How far it is to work from Zillah
About 20% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Zillah walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,315 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 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). 0.4% of Zillah households have no vehicle (Washington 7.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Zillah’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Zillah is 2,258th of 4,562 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Clearview WA | 3,254 | $193K | 2.6% | 0.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Medina WA | 2,974 | $250K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Meadow Glade WA | 2,281 | $129K | 2.4% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,256 | Montague Township NJ | 3,896 | $101K | 8.8% | 5.5% | 5% | B− |
| 2,257 | Terre du Lac MO | 2,516 | $86K | 6.4% | 4.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,258 | Zillah WA | 3,111 | $75K | 6.5% | 5.4% | 9% | B− |
| 2,259 | Ishpeming Township MI | 3,449 | $94K | 4.3% | 7.0% | 7% | B− |
| 2,260 | Madison Township OH | 3,775 | $99K | 11.8% | 3.5% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Zillah, 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 2024, 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 Zillah: questions
What is the median household income in Zillah?
$75,000 (±$7,017) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $98,141 across Washington and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Zillah?
6.5%, against 9.9% across Washington and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Zillah?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Washington and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Zillah work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yakima (19%, 18 mi), Toppenish (8%, 3 mi), Sunnyside (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Zillah walkable?
Zillah is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Zillah without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Zillah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Zillah
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.