Work & commute · Orting

Work & commute in Orting, WA

Most working residents leave Orting for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Seattle (10%), Tacoma (9%) and Puyallup (7%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

183 of 3,762 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

40 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,579 Orting residents head out of town to work, 183 work right here, and 1,158 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orting.

3,579live here, work elsewhere

183live and work here

1,158work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Orting goes to work

Seattle36.7 mi away

10%362

Tacoma15.8 mi away

9%343

Puyallup6.8 mi away

7%260

Auburn14.3 mi away

7%253

Kent20.2 mi away

6%218

Sumner9.4 mi away

5%197

Orting (in town)right here

5%183

Federal Way16 mi away

3%114

Renton26.4 mi away

2%76

Bellevue34.7 mi away

2%74

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%1,682

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

How far

How far Orting commutes

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

27%

41%

23%

27%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Orting is a commuter town

0.36jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Orting are

1,341 jobs are based in Orting. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Orting’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Orting

1,341 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)90%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Orting residents hold

3,762 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+52%

Jobs based in Orting, 2013 → 2023: 883 → 1,341. 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.