Work & commute · Tanglewilde

Work & commute in Tanglewilde, WA

Most working residents leave Tanglewilde for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Olympia (20%), Lacey (17%) and Seattle (8%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34 of 1,943 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 1,909 Tanglewilde residents head out of town to work, 34 work right here, and 1,606 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tanglewilde.

1,909live here, work elsewhere

34live and work here

1,606work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tanglewilde goes to work

Olympia5.4 mi away

20%386

Lacey0.9 mi away

17%331

Seattle44.1 mi away

8%149

Tumwater7.7 mi away

7%137

Tacoma20.5 mi away

5%91

Tanglewilde (in town)right here

2%34

Bellevue47.7 mi away

2%32

Lakewood14.3 mi away

1%28

Puyallup24.7 mi away

1%27

Everett68.7 mi away

1%26

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%702

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

How far

How far Tanglewilde commutes

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

51%

17%

20%

12%

51%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tanglewilde is balanced between jobs and homes

0.84jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Tanglewilde are

1,640 jobs are based in Tanglewilde. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tanglewilde’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Tanglewilde

1,640 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities55%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Tanglewilde residents hold

1,943 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+83%

Jobs based in Tanglewilde, 2013 → 2023: 897 → 1,640. 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.