Photo: BoonesMill · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Boones Mill works elsewhere
Home is the office for 7% of workers, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole. Boones Mill has 52 jobs, and 99 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Boones Mill for work; outside it, Roanoke is the main destination (25%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Boones Mill
On a workday 99 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Boones Mill on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Commuting out of Boones Mill: the destinations
Where Boones Mill clocks in
25% of workers
15% 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.
Jobs in Boones Mill: what the 52 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boones Mill, 2013 → 2023: 82 → 52. 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 Boones Mill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Boones Mill’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boones Mill workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 115 commuters (the 7% 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.
Where in the region Boones Mill works
About 15% 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 Boones Mill: questions
What is the median household income in Boones Mill?
$75,972 (±$25,823) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boones Mill?
3.9%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boones Mill?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boones Mill work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roanoke (25%, 11 mi), Rocky Mount (15%, 8 mi), Salem (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Boones Mill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boones Mill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boones Mill
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.