The employment rate is 2,215, with a labor force of 2,418 and an unemployment rate of 8.4 percent. It is an agricultural community in the heart of great farmland. There is abundant irrigation water for producing many crop varieties. Columbia Basin Railraod connects local users to the Burlington northeren main line. Low cost power, natural gas and available land await industry.
Warden supports three city parks and a historical society.
There are also five lakes nearby. The employment rate is 903, with a labor force of 1,068 and an unemployment rate of 15.4 percent. The acreagfe of the areas fine orchardscontinues to expand, and the amount of vinyard land in the area is also growing, as the soils and climate produces some of the finest wine grapes, apples and cherries grown in the northwest. There is a public golf course with airport, and a city park in Mattawa. The employment rate is 627, with a labor force of 726 and an unemployment rate of 13.6 percent.