Work & commute · Summit View

Work & commute in Summit View, WA

Most working residents leave Summit View for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Tacoma (15%), Puyallup (10%) and Seattle (9%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

42 of 4,152 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 4,110 Summit View residents head out of town to work, 42 work right here, and 2,168 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Summit View.

4,110live here, work elsewhere

42live and work here

2,168work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Summit View goes to work

Tacoma9.5 mi away

15%624

Puyallup4.1 mi away

10%411

Seattle33.4 mi away

9%360

Kent18.7 mi away

5%189

Auburn13.4 mi away

4%182

Lakewood8.5 mi away

4%173

South Hill3.3 mi away

3%127

Sumner8.5 mi away

3%115

Fife6.6 mi away

3%113

Federal Way12.1 mi away

3%106

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%1,752

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

How far

How far Summit View commutes

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

44%

28%

19%

44%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Summit View is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Summit View are

2,210 jobs are based in Summit View. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Summit View’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Summit View

2,210 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)34%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Summit View residents hold

4,152 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month73%

+59%

Jobs based in Summit View, 2013 → 2023: 1,387 → 2,210. 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.