Basye has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
165 jobs are based in Basye, and 493 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Basye is better than 35% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (D). Home is the office for 6% of workers (Virginia 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Basye
The four measures behind Basye’s grade
The poverty rate holds Basye’s grade up (8.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Basye’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Basye could be anywhere from D to B+.
The commute from Basye, by distance
About 36% 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.
A workday in Basye: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 457 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 129 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Basye on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
11% of working residents work in Woodstock
Where Basye clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Basye: what the 165 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Basye, 2013 → 2023: 143 → 165. 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 Basye’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way for Basye’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Basye workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 605 commuters (the 6% 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.
The commute in Basye is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 644 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). 0.0% of Basye households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Basye’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Basye ranks 3,257th of 6,308 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Bull Run Mountain Estates VA | 1,827 | $250K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,255 | Wells Township PA | 1,147 | $60K | 6.6% | 2.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,256 | North Key Largo FL | 1,808 | $150K | 28.1% | 2.6% | 17% | C |
| 3,257 | Basye VA | 1,481 | $74K | 8.6% | 0.0% | 7% | C |
| 3,258 | Delavan IL | 1,548 | $63K | 11.0% | 5.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,259 | Weston OH | 1,486 | $61K | 12.6% | 5.6% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Basye, 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 Basye: questions
What is the median household income in Basye?
$74,393 (±$37,328) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Basye?
8.6%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Basye?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Basye work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodstock (11%, 14 mi), Mount Jackson (9%, 8 mi), Winchester (4%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Basye walkable?
Basye is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Basye 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 Basye, from the people who make the trip.
More of Basye
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.