Photo: DwayneP at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Atkins has 4.3 jobs for every working resident: 1,814 people commute in to work
About one in seven work in Atkins itself; outside it, Marion draws the most (22%, 7 miles). 1,875 jobs are based in Atkins; 440 of its residents have a job. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 18% across Virginia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Atkins, in a few figures
Atkins fills up on a workday
Atkins has 1,875 jobs, 4.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, more than double the 990 who live here. Day and night ↓
Atkins makes and builds things
89% of the jobs based in Atkins are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Atkins residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 32%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Atkins pay better than its residents’ jobs
82% of the jobs based in Atkins pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 52% of the jobs Atkins residents hold. 97% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Atkins. The jobs ↓
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 440 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Atkins
On a workday 379 residents head out to work and 61 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Atkins on a workday afternoon, 146% more 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.
A place that makes things: 89% of Atkins’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Atkins, 2013 → 2023: 2,449 → 1,875. 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 Atkins’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Atkins live
Where Atkins clocks in
22% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
The daily trip from Atkins: about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Atkins workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 477 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Atkins commutes less than 14 miles
About 17% 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.
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 Atkins: questions
What is the median household income in Atkins?
$48,500 (±$10,962) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Atkins?
8.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Atkins?
14 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Atkins work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (22%, 7 mi), Wytheville (6%, 18 mi), Chilhowie (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Atkins without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Atkins, from the people who make the trip.
More of Atkins
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.