Cow Marsh Old School Baptist Church · Photo: Linda Roy Walls · CC BY-SA 4.0Viola has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
53% of workers work from home; Delaware has 15%. 1 jobs are based in Viola; 69 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Viola itself; outside it, Dover draws the most (23%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Viola
On a workday 69 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 77 people are in Viola on a workday afternoon, 47% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Viola goes to work
Where Viola clocks in
23% of workers
7% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Viola is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Viola’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Viola, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Viola workers work from home, vs 15% across Delaware. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 46 commuters (the 53% who work from home are left out). Across Delaware: 84% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The commute from Viola, by distance
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Viola: questions
What is the poverty rate in Viola?
5.6%, against 10.4% across Delaware and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Viola?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Delaware and 26 nationally. 53% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Viola work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dover (23%, 9 mi), Milford (7%, 12 mi), Wilmington (6%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Viola without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Viola, from the people who make the trip.
More of Viola
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.