Work & commute · Forks

Work & commute in Forks, WA

48% of Forks’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Port Angeles (4%), Monroe (3%) and Seattle (3%). Half commute less than 2 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

48%

536 of 1,119 working residents

Typical commute

2 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 583 Forks residents head out of town to work, 536 work right here, and 757 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Forks.

583live here, work elsewhere

536live and work here

757work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Forks goes to work

Forks (in town)right here

48%536

Port Angeles45 mi away

4%48

Monroe111.6 mi away

3%37

Seattle97.4 mi away

3%29

Tumwater95.7 mi away

1%14

Olympia94 mi away

1%14

Everett101.9 mi away

1%9

Bellingham104.1 mi away

1%8

Port Townsend74.9 mi away

0%5

SeaTac103.4 mi away

0%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%414

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

How far

How far Forks commutes

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

54%

12%

28%

54%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Forks is balanced between jobs and homes

1.16jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Forks are

1,293 jobs are based in Forks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Forks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Forks

1,293 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Forks residents hold

1,119 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+21%

Jobs based in Forks, 2013 → 2023: 1,071 → 1,293. 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.