Work & commute · Ocean Shores

Work & commute in Ocean Shores, WA

About one in 4 of Ocean Shores’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Seattle (8%), Aberdeen (5%) and Bellevue (3%). Half commute less than 50 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27%

535 of 1,975 working residents

Typical commute

50 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,440 Ocean Shores residents head out of town to work, 535 work right here, and 625 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ocean Shores.

1,440live here, work elsewhere

535live and work here

625work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ocean Shores goes to work

Ocean Shores (in town)right here

27%535

Seattle95.6 mi away

8%162

Aberdeen16 mi away

5%100

Bellevue103.1 mi away

3%54

Olympia59.4 mi away

3%52

Hoquiam11.4 mi away

2%47

Oyehut3.9 mi away

2%38

Amanda Park35.1 mi away

2%38

Auburn94.1 mi away

2%35

Tacoma81.9 mi away

2%34

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%880

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

How far

How far Ocean Shores commutes

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

35%

12%

50%

35%Under 10 mi

12%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

50%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ocean Shores is a commuter town

0.59jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Ocean Shores are

1,160 jobs are based in Ocean Shores. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ocean Shores’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Ocean Shores

1,160 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Ocean Shores residents hold

1,975 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+7%

Jobs based in Ocean Shores, 2013 → 2023: 1,081 → 1,160. 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.