Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Broadway has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
8% of workers have no commute at all, against 18% across Virginia. Broadway has 1,135 jobs; 2,271 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Broadway C+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Broadway: the figures worth knowing
Broadway makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Broadway are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Broadway residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
31% of Broadway works in Harrisonburg
705 working residents, 31%, have their main job in Harrisonburg, 13 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Broadway itself. The commute map ↓
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.
Where Broadway’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Broadway is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #202 of 253 in Virginia. Unemployment holds Broadway’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Broadway could be anywhere from D to B+.
Broadway works in goods: 44% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Broadway, 2013 → 2023: 1,095 → 1,135. 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 Broadway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
31% of working residents work in Harrisonburg
Where Broadway clocks in
31% of workers
2% 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.
How many people are in Broadway by day
On a workday 2,139 residents head out to work, 132 work right here, and 1,003 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Broadway on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
The trip to work from Broadway: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Broadway workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,965 commuters (the 9% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Broadway
About 22% 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.
Getting around Broadway: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Broadway is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns, #238 of 253 in Virginia. Both inputs place Broadway near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,148 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). 1.4% of Broadway households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Broadway’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,672nd of 4,000: where Broadway ranks among U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | One Loudoun VA | 3,309 | $241K | 0.9% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Navy VA | 3,839 | $239K | 4.4% | 1.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Crosspointe VA | 5,669 | $250K | 3.7% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,670 | Pipestone MN | 4,100 | $68K | 13.1% | 3.0% | 46% | C+ |
| 2,671 | Spencer NC | 3,450 | $65K | 11.2% | 7.1% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,672 | Broadway VA | 4,463 | $65K | 13.3% | 4.1% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,673 | Olive NY | 4,263 | $114K | 8.0% | 17.1% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,674 | Lake Tansi TN | 4,437 | $58K | 13.9% | 2.0% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Broadway, 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 Broadway: questions
What is the median household income in Broadway?
$64,669 (±$10,438) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Broadway?
13.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Broadway?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Broadway work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisonburg (31%, 12 mi), Bridgewater (2%, 18 mi), Woodstock (2%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Broadway walkable?
Broadway is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Broadway 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 Broadway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Broadway
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.