100% of Bell Hill’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Bell Hill for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Sequim (19%), Port Angeles (11%) and Seattle (8%). Half commute less than 37 miles.
What kind of work town is Bell Hill?
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19% of working residents work in Sequim
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Bell Hill clocks in
19% of workers
11% of workers
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker than most of Washington
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bell Hill workers work from home, vs 20% across Washington. Their commute is the hallway.
19% of Bell Hill works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Sequim (19%). Darker towns draw more of Bell Hill’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Bell Hill quiets down on a workday
On a workday 294 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Bell Hill on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.09 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Bell Hill commutes less than 37 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 29% 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.
65% of the jobs in Bell Hill pay over $3,333 a month
26 jobs are based in Bell Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bell Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bell Hill, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 26. 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Bell Hill
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bell Hill, from the people who make the trip.
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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.