Work & commute · Amboy

Work & commute in Amboy, WA

Most working residents leave Amboy for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Vancouver (17%), Battle Ground (9%) and Portland (8%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 793 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

41 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

25%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 780 Amboy residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 149 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Amboy.

780live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

149work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Amboy goes to work

Vancouver20 mi away

17%134

Battle Ground9.9 mi away

9%72

Portland, OR27.3 mi away

8%67

Seattle117.9 mi away

4%28

Ridgefield11.1 mi away

3%23

Brush Prairie13.5 mi away

3%23

Mount Vista14.1 mi away

3%20

Woodland12.7 mi away

2%19

Five Corners16.2 mi away

2%16

Olympia80.1 mi away

2%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%377

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Amboy commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

15%

47%

18%

20%

15%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Amboy is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.20 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Amboy are

162 jobs are based in Amboy. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Amboy’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Amboy

162 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)57%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)28%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Amboy residents hold

793 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+45%

Jobs based in Amboy, 2013 → 2023: 112 → 162. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.