Old Stone Church · Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Brucetown commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 18% across Virginia. Employers in Brucetown report 17 jobs for 111 working residents. Hardly any work in Brucetown; the top destination outside it is Winchester (21%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Brucetown by day and by night
On a workday 111 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Brucetown on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 towns that employ Brucetown’s residents
Where Brucetown clocks in
21% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Brucetown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brucetown, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 17. 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 Brucetown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Brucetown: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brucetown workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 182 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.
The commute from Brucetown, by distance
About 23% 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 Brucetown: questions
What is the median household income in Brucetown?
$104,250 (±$65,963) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brucetown?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brucetown?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brucetown work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winchester (21%, 8 mi), Chantilly (5%, 42 mi), Front Royal (3%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Brucetown 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 Brucetown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brucetown
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.