Work & commute · Orchards

Work & commute in Orchards, WA

Most working residents leave Orchards for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Vancouver (31%), Portland (17%) and Seattle (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

380 of 13,550 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 13,170 Orchards residents head out of town to work, 380 work right here, and 4,331 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orchards.

13,170live here, work elsewhere

380live and work here

4,331work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Orchards goes to work

Vancouver4.8 mi away

31%4,233

Portland, OR12 mi away

17%2,322

Seattle133.6 mi away

4%488

Orchards (in town)right here

3%380

Camas7.7 mi away

3%346

Hazel Dell5.9 mi away

2%305

Mount Vista5.9 mi away

2%274

Battle Ground6.1 mi away

2%248

Salmon Creek6.6 mi away

2%230

Gresham, OR13.6 mi away

1%197

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%4,527

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

How far

How far Orchards commutes

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

51%

29%

18%

51%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Orchards is a commuter town

0.35jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Orchards are

4,711 jobs are based in Orchards. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Orchards’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Orchards

4,711 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Orchards residents hold

13,550 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+41%

Jobs based in Orchards, 2013 → 2023: 3,340 → 4,711. 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.