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DuPont, WA

Workplaces are expanding faster than the resident base in DuPont.

Population
10,190
0% more from 2021 to 2026
Family households
72.7%
±7 points at 90% confidence
Local jobs
4,819
39% more from 2018 to 2023
Median income
$120,781
±$15,418 at 90% confidence
City overview

The forces shaping DuPont now.

01
The trajectory

Workplaces are expanding faster than the resident base in DuPont.

DuPont’s population rose <1% from 2021–2026; its workplace job count rose 39% from 2018–2023. The source periods differ because the two series are released on different schedules.

DuPont’s faster-growing workplace base gives local businesses more daytime customers. It also makes inbound travel—including the resident connection to Tacoma and nearby housing part of the city’s labor strategy.

Population: 2021–2026 · jobs: 2018–2023
02
The local economic engine

Logistics / Industrial supplies 46% of the jobs inside DuPont.

DuPont contains 4,819 workplace jobs. Logistics / Industrial accounts for 46% of them. Construction / Real Estate is next at 22%.

Freight routes, warehouse land, and shift access are central economic infrastructure in DuPont—not secondary land-use details.

Workplace jobs: 2023
03
The commute that shapes the city

DuPont sends its largest stream of resident workers to Tacoma.

20% of observed resident job destinations are in Tacoma, followed by Seattle at 18%. Only 8% are inside DuPont.

Current GTFS schedules 21 weekday stop departures at 1 stops inside DuPont; that supply still needs to be tested against the route to Tacoma, the largest outside job destination. Schedule supply is not ridership.

Workplace flows: 2023 · commute modes: ACS 2024
People

Who lives here—and which households shape demand?

10,190 residents are counted in the latest official state estimate, 0% more than in 2021. Survey measures appear here only when their uncertainty is small enough to describe the city confidently.

Average household size
2.6

±0.2 people at 90% confidence

Median age
34.3

±1.8 years at 90% confidence

Bachelor’s degree+
54%

Among residents age 25 and older. ±8 points at 90% confidence

Residents, 2026
10,190

Official annual city estimate from Washington OFM.

Population composition

Who lives here

Estimated share of all DuPont residents. Each percentage uses the city’s total population as its denominator.

White, non-Hispanic57% ±7 pts
Hispanic / Latino, any race12% ±4 pts
Two or more races, non-Hispanic8.0% ±3 pts
Filipino4.8% ±2 pts
Black, non-Hispanic4.5% ±2 pts
Chinese, except Taiwanese2.3% ±2 pts
Korean2.2% ±1 pts
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic1.8% ±2 pts
Another race, non-Hispanic1.3% ±1 pts
Nepalese1.3% ±1 pts
Japanese0.9% ±0.8 pts
Asian Indian0.9% ±0.9 pts
Thai0.8% ±1 pts
Two or more Asian groups0.6% ±0.4 pts
Vietnamese0.4% ±0.3 pts
Other Asian, not specified0.2% ±0.3 pts
American Indian / Alaska Native, non-Hispanic0.2% ±0.3 pts

0% published estimate: Hmong, Mongolian, Okinawan, Taiwanese, Other East Asian, Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Singaporean, Other Southeast Asian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Pakistani, Sikh, Sri Lankan, Other South Asian, Afghan, Kazakh, Uzbek, Other Central Asian, Other Asian, specified. Zero is not proof that no residents identify with that group.

ACS 2020–2024 · 5-year estimates
Dataset
U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates · tables B03002 and B02015
Period
2020–2024
Geography
DuPont Census place
Definition
Race and Hispanic/Latino origin are self-reported Census concepts. Hispanic/Latino may be of any race; the broad display uses non-Hispanic race categories plus Hispanic/Latino of any race.
Method
Every percentage is shown with its 90% margin of error. Detailed Asian estimates use the Asian-alone universe and are divided by the city population for display.
Open the official source ↗
Work

What powers the local economy—and how dependent is it?

Logistics / Industrial accounts for 46% of jobs located in DuPont. The city’s job base changed +92% between 2010 and 2023.

Jobs by sector

Workplace jobs inside the city—not the industries of residents who commute elsewhere.

Logistics / Industrial46%
Construction / Real Estate22%
Hospitality11%
Healthcare & Social Assistance4%
Finance3%

Historical employer snapshot

Employers ranked by jobs in DuPont; the city plan publishes rank but not headcount · Historical employer snapshot · 2023. The source is older than the current employer publication window; headcounts are historical, not current.

Amazon.com ServicesRank 1; count not published · 2023
Jones Lang LaSalleRank 2; count not published · 2023
FedEx GroundRank 3; count not published · 2023
Steilacoom Historical School DistrictRank 4; count not published · 2023
Patriots LandingRank 5; count not published · 2023
Farrelli’s PizzaRank 6; count not published · 2023
America’s Credit UnionRank 7; count not published · 2023
DSA HoldingsRank 8; count not published · 2023
Ascend Gymnastics DuPontRank 9; count not published · 2023
CalPortlandRank 10; count not published · 2023

City of DuPont Comprehensive Plan update ↗. Headcounts change faster than Census employment totals.

Housing

What kinds of homes exist—and where is pressure showing?

62% of occupied homes are estimated to be owner-occupied and 38% rented. The firmer current signal is construction intent: 0 homes were authorized in 2025, versus a recent pace of about 0 per year.

Home value profile

What owner-occupied homes are worth

Owner estimates from the 2020–2024 American Community Survey—not listings, recorded sales, or appraisals. The final Census band is open-ended: $2 million and above.

Median estimate$584k±21833.0 at 90% confidence
Middle half of homes$471k–$689kLower to upper quartile of owner estimates
Luxury-home concentration3%≈64 homes · estimated at $2M+
Under $500k30%
$500–749k60%
$750–999k8%
$1–1.49M0%
$1.5–1.99M0%
$2M+3%

These estimates are useful as a distribution, but the survey intervals are too wide to rank DuPont or identify one definitive value range.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year tables B25075–B25078. Values cover owner-occupied homes only and do not measure current asking prices or recent purchase prices.

The housing mix we can estimate confidently

This describes the existing stock. It does not imply that one building type is preferable.

Attached houses8%
5+ unit buildings16%
Owner-occupied
62%

±7 points at 90% confidence

Owner cost-burdened
21%

Spending 30% or more on selected owner costs. ±7 points at 90% confidence

Homes authorized, 2025
0

Permit authorizations—not construction starts or completed homes.

Residential buildings, 2025
0

One building can contain one home or many housing units.

Permit activity: U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey, final annual estimate for 2025. Housing units authorized are not starts or completions.

Mobility

Where do residents need to go—and who has a real alternative to driving?

Current transit schedules include 1 stops and 21 weekday stop departures inside DuPont. The 2020–2024 ACS separately estimates how workers usually commuted; it does not count every transit trip or describe today's schedule.

Weekday departures
21

Scheduled stop departures in the current covered-feed snapshot—not riders.

Transit stops
1

Matched inside city limits; nearby cross-border stops are separate.

Top outside workplace
Tacoma

20% of observed resident job destinations in 2023 LODES.

Work inside the city
8%

Share of observed resident job destinations located in the same city in 2023 LODES.

Where resident workers go

Top observed workplace destinations. 8% work inside DuPont.

Tacoma20%
Peak drive: 30–60 min
Seattle18%
Peak drive: 80–140 min
Lakewood11%
Peak drive: 25–50 min
Steilacoom4%

The strongest outside connection is Tacoma. Employer or corridor changes there can alter everyday life in DuPont, even when nothing changes inside the city boundary.

How residents usually get to work

Citywide ACS 2020–2024 estimates describe workers’ usual commute—not every trip made today.

Work from home
10%

Share of workers usually working from home. ±3 points at 90% confidence

Use public transit
0.7%

Usual commute mode—not all transit trips. ±1 points at 90% confidence

Commute 45+ minutes
12%

Share of workers with a one-way commute of at least 45 minutes. ±4 points at 90% confidence

For someone choosing a home in DuPont, the practical test is the trip to Tacoma, the leading outside workplace destination in the published flows. These citywide shares cannot show whether that trip works from a particular address.

Typical drive times

About how long does it take to get where people go?

Work destinations are selected from observed resident job flows. These are broad, reviewed planning ranges from representative parts of DuPont—not live-traffic or door-to-door predictions.

Starting area
Tacoma employment area

Tacoma is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for DuPont, representing 14% of matched resident jobs from this city.

25–50 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Highway-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.25x circuity factor and an assumed 45 km/h peak-effective / 70 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Downtown Seattle employment core

Seattle is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for DuPont, representing 12% of matched resident jobs from this city.

80–140 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Highway-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.25x circuity factor and an assumed 45 km/h peak-effective / 70 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Lakewood employment area

Lakewood is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for DuPont, representing 8% of matched resident jobs from this city.

20–50 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

DuPont employment area

DuPont is a LODES-selected resident workplace destination for DuPont, representing 6% of matched resident jobs from this city.

5–20 minWeekday morning peak
Details

Local arterial-dominant corridor: distance converted with a reviewed 1.40x circuity factor and an assumed 28 km/h peak-effective / 42 km/h off-peak effective speed, then widened and rounded to a broad band. The morning inbound peak is shown; the evening outbound return is assumed to fall within the same broad band.

Method, review date, and sources

Planning estimate; actual time varies by departure time, route, traffic, weather, incidents, and closures.

Estimates are derived from reviewed origin/destination coordinates using a documented distance-to-time heuristic (circuity factor and assumed effective speed by corridor type and period), then deliberately widened and rounded to a broad band. No live routing or traffic API was called.

Estimates reviewed 2026-09-10. Starting point: selected representative area.

City boundary and regional context● nearby   ● work destinations
Daily life

Community institutions and local activity

Public schools, libraries, pharmacies, and listed everyday places show part of the local inventory inside DuPont; taxable sales show the scale and direction of local commercial activity. Residents also use places across city lines, so a boundary count is not the same as access.

Local field guide

Places for everyday needs in DuPont

Care, errands, food, fitness, and personal services gathered into one browsable directory.

Hospitals0 in cityFind nearby
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Pharmacies1 listedView all
Dupont Pharmacy1545 WILMINGTON DR STE 160 · DUPONT, WA 98327-9032MapExplore all pharmacies in MapsOpen
Coffee5 listedView all
Darkpour CafeMapDuPont J CafeMapForza Coffee Co.MapStarbucks Coffee CompanyMapTravelin' Tom's Coffee of LakewoodMapExplore all coffee in MapsOpen
Fitness3 listedView all
Anytime FitnessMapBSCCMapInner Sanctum Yoga, LlcMapExplore all fitness in MapsOpen
Groceries1 listedView all
Emerald City SmoothieMapExplore all groceries in MapsOpen
Restaurants15 listedView 8 places
Bruceski's Stone Oven PizzaMapDupont Restaurant IncMapFarrelli's PizzaMapFortune CookieMapHappy Teriyaki DupontMapHudson's Bay Heritage Days BBQ CookoffMapI Sushi and TeriyakiMapJack in the BoxMapExplore all restaurants in MapsOpen
Salons and barbers5 listedView all
Christine Dior Hair SalonMapGreat ClipsMapShea Alexander SalonMapThe Stronghold SalonMapStudio D SalonMapExplore all salons and barbers in MapsOpen

Counts reflect current directory records associated with the city, not a complete business census or a measure of access. Large categories show a sample.

Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), snapshot 2026-08-13; Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-08-19.0; U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (NPPES NPI Registry), snapshot 2026-09-09.

Public library footprint

DuPont Library

Floor area shows the scale of the physical branches. Physical circulation is 2024 checkouts—not visits, unique users, or digital borrowing—and people routinely use libraries across city lines.

Branch floor area
3,610 sq ft

All matched branches must report floor area before a city total is shown.

Physical checkouts
66,450

Annual branch activity; not limited to city residents. All matched branches must report before a city total is shown.

DuPont LibraryPierce County Library System
3,610 sq ft66,450 physical checkouts50 scheduled hours/week

Source: Washington State Library public-library statistics, 2024. System-wide visits, digital circulation, and program attendance cannot be assigned honestly to one branch, so they are not folded into these city totals.

Education footprint

The schools inside DuPont.

Institution counts and enrollment will remain separate. A school can serve students from outside the city, and residents may attend a school across the boundary or elsewhere in their district.

Public elementary1
  • Chloe Clark Elementary SchoolSteilacoom Hist. School District
Public middle1
  • Pioneer Middle School (Dupont)Steilacoom Hist. School District
Public high0

None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.

Other public programs0

None in the current OSPI city-boundary match.

Public-school names and levels come from OSPI. Private schools, complete IPEDS college coverage, enrollment by level, and graduate destinations are active additions; absence here should not yet be read as “none.”

Retail role

DuPont records relatively little retail activity for its population.

Retail sales per resident fall below 94% of the cities tracked by Metroscope. That may mean residents rely more on nearby cities for shopping, but sales records alone cannot prove where they shop.

Retail sales per resident, 2024
$4,296

Higher than 6% of 82 tracked cities.

Change from 2023
−7%

Nominal retail-sales change; inflation can account for some or all of an increase.

See the underlying sales totals
Retail trade, 2024
$43.8M

Sales reported by businesses classified in retail trade.

All taxable sales
$161.9M

Includes taxable activity outside retail trade.

Retail share
27%

Retailing industries’ share of all taxable sales.

Tracked-city median
$10,670

Median retail sales per resident across cities with comparable data.

Civic life

In DuPont, voters directly choose who runs City Hall.

DuPont voters elect the mayor separately from the council. The mayor leads city administration, while the council adopts laws, policy, and the budget—so executive accountability sits directly with an elected office.

Government form
Mayor–Council

The mayor is separately elected to lead administration.

Mayor listed
Ron Frederick

The separately elected chief executive.

Council representatives listed
7

Current directory entries; vacancies or updates can make this differ from authorized seats.

Incorporated
1912

Code city under Washington law.

Where decisions happen

When does the DuPont council meet?

Regular meeting schedule listed in the current municipal directory:

2nd Tue - 6:00pm4th Tue - 6:30pm

Schedules change and special meetings are separate. Check the city site for the live agenda, staff reports, public-comment rules, and video.

Official city site ↗Current officials directory ↗
Election record

Where to check DuPont election results.

Regular municipal offices generally return in 2027. Special measures can appear earlier, and charter provisions can differ.

The next data step is city-specific turnout, contested-seat share, ballot measures, and campaign money. Until those are normalized, Metroscope links the official record instead of guessing from partisan elections.

Structure, meetings, and current officials: Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington (MRSC), checked 2026-09-08. Election administration and certified results: the county election offices listed above. Confirm live agendas and officeholders at the source.

Change

What is changing the city’s trajectory?

Population and jobs do not always move together. Reading both helps distinguish a growing employment center from a city whose households are increasingly tied to opportunities elsewhere.

Residents
10,190

0% more from 2021 to 2026

Local jobs
4,819

39% more from 2018 to 2023

Retail trade, 2023–2024
−7%

Nominal taxable-sales change; not adjusted for inflation.

Data & details — selected comparable metrics across 82 places
Local jobs
LODES
4,819
1,506656,821
Higher than only 9% of places
Long-run job change
LODES
+92%
−3%+166%
Higher than 91% of places
Weekday transit departures
GTFS snapshot
21
19256,385
Higher than only 3% of places
Multifamily permitting
Census BPS
Near a 15-year low
Recent annual pace compared with this city's own 2010–2025 record
2BR Fair Market Rent
HUD, county-level
$2,064
FY2027 HUD program benchmark; chart shows FY2020–FY2027 history. Shared across this HUD metro area—not a place-specific market rent.
Work — sector breakdown
Share of local jobs by sector · LODES · workplace location, not resident industry
Logistics / Industrial46% (2,206)
Construction / Real Estate22% (1,079)
Hospitality11% (549)
Healthcare & Social Assistance4% (170)
Finance3% (160)
Other3% (123)
Education (includes academia/research)2% (107)
Manufacturing (includes, but is not limited to, aerospace)2% (90)
Professional Services (partial technology proxy)2% (79)
Government (Public Administration)2% (79)
Retail2% (77)
Administrative & Support Services1% (62)
Information (partial technology proxy)1% (38)
Where DuPont's workforce lives (inbound)
LODES OD — commuting flows into local jobs
Seattle
16.1%
Tacoma
14.3%
DuPont
7.9%
Lakewood
7.7%
Bellevue
3.9%