Evergreen · Public domainFamily incomes put Bull Run Mountain Estates near the very top of U.S. towns
Family incomes here are among the highest in the country. Not counting college students, poverty touches 1.3% of residents, against 9.3% across Virginia. Bull Run Mountain Estates grades A+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Bull Run Mountain Estates in brief
Home offices are common in Bull Run Mountain Estates
44% of Bull Run Mountain Estates workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Time on the road ↓
Bull Run Mountain Estates is a place people come home to
There are 94 jobs based in Bull Run Mountain Estates, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bull Run Mountain Estates has about 1,300 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Bull Run Mountain Estates workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across Virginia. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 601 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Bull Run Mountain Estates earns its Jobs & income grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Bull Run Mountain Estates is better than 98% of U.S. towns. Family income is its strongest input ($250,001, U.S. $99,999); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
16% of Bull Run Mountain Estates’ residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (16% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 1.3%, against 1.1% for all residents. Unemployment (0.0%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($250,001), since student households pull the household median down ($250,000+).
The Census reports Bull Run Mountain Estates’ median household income as $250,000+, the top of its scale; the grade ranks it as tied with the 111 other graded places at that ceiling.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Bull Run Mountain Estates stays A+.
Bull Run Mountain Estates’ commute takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bull Run Mountain Estates workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 521 commuters (the 44% 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.
Bull Run Mountain Estates by day and by night
On a workday 596 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Bull Run Mountain Estates on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.16 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
6% of working residents work in Chantilly
Where Bull Run Mountain Estates clocks in
6% of workers
6% 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.
72% of the jobs in Bull Run Mountain Estates pay over $3,333 a month
94 jobs are based in Bull Run Mountain Estates.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bull Run Mountain Estates, 2014 → 2024: 71 → 94. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bull Run Mountain Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Bull Run Mountain Estates commutes less than 17 miles
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Bull Run Mountain Estates is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bull Run Mountain Estates is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bull Run Mountain Estates 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 935 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.2% of Bull Run Mountain Estates households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bull Run Mountain Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Bull Run Mountain Estates comes 93rd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Sun Prairie WI | 2,291 | $127K | 2.0% | 1.8% | 3% | A+ |
| 92 | Verona WI | 2,092 | $150K | 2.6% | 2.0% | <1% | A+ |
| 93 | Bull Run Mountain Estates VA | 1,827 | $250K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 94 | Kechi KS | 2,375 | $113K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 1% | A+ |
| 95 | Hopewell NJ | 1,944 | $145K | 3.9% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Bull Run Mountain Estates, 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 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 16% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bull Run Mountain Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Bull Run Mountain Estates?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bull Run Mountain Estates?
1.1% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 1.3%. Virginia: 9.9%.
How long is the commute from Bull Run Mountain Estates?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 44% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bull Run Mountain Estates work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chantilly (6%, 12 mi), Gainesville (6%, 8 mi), Washington (4%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bull Run Mountain Estates walkable?
Bull Run Mountain Estates is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bull Run Mountain Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bull Run Mountain Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bull Run Mountain Estates
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.