Work & commute · Fife Heights

Work & commute in Fife Heights, WA

Most working residents leave Fife Heights for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Seattle (13%), Tacoma (12%) and Fife (6%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 925 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 918 Fife Heights residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 1,003 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fife Heights.

918live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

1,003work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fife Heights goes to work

Seattle24.8 mi away

13%116

Tacoma5.4 mi away

12%112

Fife2 mi away

6%58

Federal Way3.5 mi away

6%52

Kent10.9 mi away

5%50

Auburn7 mi away

5%44

Renton16.7 mi away

4%39

SeaTac12.8 mi away

4%37

Bellevue24.9 mi away

4%33

Milton1.5 mi away

3%31

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%353

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

How far

How far Fife Heights commutes

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

44%

35%

15%

44%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fife Heights is balanced between jobs and homes

1.09jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fife Heights are

1,010 jobs are based in Fife Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fife Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fife Heights

1,010 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities1%

Services (health, schools, offices…)97%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Fife Heights residents hold

925 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month71%

−19%

Jobs based in Fife Heights, 2013 → 2023: 1,244 → 1,010. 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.