Work & commute · Palouse

Work & commute in Palouse, WA

Most working residents leave Palouse for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Pullman (32%), Garfield (7%) and Colfax (7%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15 of 333 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 318 Palouse residents head out of town to work, 15 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palouse.

318live here, work elsewhere

15live and work here

124work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palouse goes to work

Pullman13 mi away

32%107

Garfield7.5 mi away

7%22

Colfax12 mi away

7%22

Moscow, ID12.9 mi away

6%19

Palouse (in town)right here

5%15

Oakesdale17.2 mi away

4%12

Seattle252.1 mi away

3%11

Spokane54.9 mi away

3%10

Richland113.8 mi away

2%6

Spokane Valley52.6 mi away

2%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%104

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

How far

How far Palouse commutes

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

13%

56%

27%

13%Under 10 mi

56%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palouse is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palouse are

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

Jobs based in Palouse

139 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Palouse residents hold

333 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+25%

Jobs based in Palouse, 2013 → 2023: 111 → 139. 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.