Work & commute · Kettle Falls

Work & commute in Kettle Falls, WA

Most working residents leave Kettle Falls for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Colville (24%), Spokane (11%) and Spokane Valley (5%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

59 of 586 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 527 Kettle Falls residents head out of town to work, 59 work right here, and 434 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Kettle Falls.

527live here, work elsewhere

59live and work here

434work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Kettle Falls goes to work

Colville8.6 mi away

24%142

Spokane71 mi away

11%65

Kettle Falls (in town)right here

10%59

Spokane Valley75.5 mi away

5%27

Seattle209.2 mi away

4%26

Chewelah27.4 mi away

2%13

Northport25 mi away

2%11

Pasco169 mi away

1%8

Fife220 mi away

1%4

Pullman135.9 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%227

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

How far

How far Kettle Falls commutes

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

43%

46%

43%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

46%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Kettle Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

0.84jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Kettle Falls are

493 jobs are based in Kettle Falls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kettle Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Kettle Falls

493 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Kettle Falls residents hold

586 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+20%

Jobs based in Kettle Falls, 2013 → 2023: 411 → 493. 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.