Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0There are 2.4 jobs in Appomattox for every working resident, and 1,931 people commute in
Appomattox grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability. 2,069 jobs are based in Appomattox for 863 working residents. Measured by household income, Appomattox is behind 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Appomattox and work: the main findings
Appomattox is where the jobs are
Appomattox has 2,069 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,200 people are in town, 60% more than the 2,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 863 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Appomattox: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Appomattox is better than 14% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Appomattox’s grade up (12.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (8.2%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Appomattox could be anywhere from D to B.
Appomattox on a workday afternoon
On a workday 725 residents head out to work and 138 work right here.
About 3,200 people are in Appomattox on a workday afternoon, 60% more than live here.
2.4 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How many miles Appomattox commutes
About 30% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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.
Commuting in to Appomattox: where workers come from
Where Appomattox clocks in
3% of workers
2% 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.
What Appomattox’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Appomattox, 2013 → 2023: 1,791 → 2,069. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
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 Appomattox’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Appomattox, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Appomattox workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 951 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Virginia: 83% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Few in Appomattox walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Appomattox is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Virginia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,056 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.2% of Appomattox households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Appomattox’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700, Appomattox comes 4,362nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 12 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,360 | Jackson Township IN | 1,731 | $50K | 10.5% | 7.3% | 5% | D |
| 4,361 | West Branch Township MI | 1,715 | $63K | 13.5% | 1.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,362 | Appomattox VA | 2,025 | $52K | 12.2% | 8.2% | 16% | D |
| 4,363 | Indian Creek Township IN | 1,537 | $79K | 33.8% | 15.8% | 2% | D |
| 4,364 | Allen Township MI | 1,612 | $65K | 22.2% | 8.5% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Appomattox, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
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 Appomattox: questions
What is the median household income in Appomattox?
$51,875 (±$10,919) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Appomattox?
12.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Appomattox?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Appomattox work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lynchburg (24%, 20 mi), Richmond (3%, 75 mi), Forest (2%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Appomattox walkable?
Appomattox is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Appomattox without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Appomattox, from the people who make the trip.
More of Appomattox
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.