Work & commute · Cottage Lake

Work & commute in Cottage Lake, WA

Most working residents leave Cottage Lake for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Seattle (23%), Redmond (21%) and Bellevue (11%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

239 of 10,439 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

34%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 10,200 Cottage Lake residents head out of town to work, 239 work right here, and 2,892 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cottage Lake.

10,200live here, work elsewhere

239live and work here

2,892work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cottage Lake goes to work

Seattle15.5 mi away

23%2,410

Redmond5.1 mi away

21%2,156

Bellevue11 mi away

11%1,119

Kirkland6.8 mi away

6%662

Bothell6.2 mi away

6%580

Everett15.7 mi away

3%300

Woodinville3.4 mi away

3%284

Cottage Lake (in town)right here

2%239

Issaquah13.9 mi away

1%149

Renton19.3 mi away

1%149

Everywhere elseother towns and states

23%2,391

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

How far

How far Cottage Lake commutes

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

46%

43%

46%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cottage Lake is a commuter town

0.30jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cottage Lake are

3,131 jobs are based in Cottage Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cottage Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cottage Lake

3,131 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Cottage Lake residents hold

10,439 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month12%

Over $3,333 a month79%

+58%

Jobs based in Cottage Lake, 2013 → 2023: 1,980 → 3,131. 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.