Work & commute · Bonney Lake

Work & commute in Bonney Lake, WA

Most working residents leave Bonney Lake for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Seattle (13%), Tacoma (8%) and Kent (8%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

348 of 10,038 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,690 Bonney Lake residents head out of town to work, 348 work right here, and 4,818 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bonney Lake.

9,690live here, work elsewhere

348live and work here

4,818work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bonney Lake goes to work

Seattle30.3 mi away

13%1,265

Tacoma14.4 mi away

8%823

Kent13.3 mi away

8%757

Auburn7.6 mi away

7%734

Sumner4.2 mi away

6%640

Puyallup6.2 mi away

4%449

Renton19.4 mi away

4%434

Bonney Lake (in town)right here

3%348

Federal Way11.2 mi away

3%260

Bellevue27.5 mi away

3%257

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%4,071

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

How far

How far Bonney Lake commutes

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

30%

38%

24%

30%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bonney Lake is a commuter town

0.51jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Bonney Lake are

5,166 jobs are based in Bonney Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bonney Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bonney Lake

5,166 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities40%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Bonney Lake residents hold

10,038 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month75%

+51%

Jobs based in Bonney Lake, 2013 → 2023: 3,422 → 5,166. 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.