Manassas National Battlefield Park · Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY 3.0Household incomes put Bull Run near the very top of U.S. towns
4.3% of residents are in poverty; Virginia has 9.9%. Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. Bull Run grades A+ for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Bull Run
A lot of Bull Run works from home
32% of Bull Run workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Time on the road ↓
No single place dominates Bull Run’s commute
The biggest draw, Springfield, gets only 7% of working residents, and 50% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Bull Run residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Bull Run workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 27 across Virginia. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Bull Run has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Bull Run went from 751 in 2013 to 1,044 in 2023, +39%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Bull Run gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bull Run is among the top U.S. towns, #12 of 253 in Virginia. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Bull Run’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bull Run could be anywhere from A to A+.
A commute of about 34 minutes in Bull Run
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bull Run workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,811 commuters (the 32% 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.
7% of working residents work in Springfield
Where Bull Run clocks in
7% 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.
70% of the jobs in Bull Run pay over $3,333 a month
1,044 jobs are based in Bull Run.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bull Run, 2013 → 2023: 751 → 1,044. 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 Bull Run’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Bull Run for work, and who comes in
On a workday 3,390 residents head out to work, 76 work right here, and 968 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,400 people are in Bull Run on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.
0.30 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 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Bull Run
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.
Bull Run is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bull Run is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns, #225 of 253 in Virginia. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,158 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). <1% 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 0.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 49% 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). 0.0% of Bull Run households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bull Run’s commuters take a bus or train.
49th of 3,026: where Bull Run ranks among U.S. towns of 5,500 to 10,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 6 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Difficult Run VA | 9,938 | $250K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Aledo TX | 7,122 | $163K | 2.8% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 48 | Francisville KY | 10,565 | $159K | 1.7% | 1.3% | 5% | A+ |
| 49 | Bull Run VA | 7,823 | $242K | 4.3% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 50 | Tyrone GA | 8,091 | $136K | 2.4% | 1.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 51 | Corcoran MN | 9,269 | $133K | 3.6% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,026 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
Bull Run and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Chantilly (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bull Run workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Run | – | A+ | C | 34 min | $241,933 |
| Centreville | 3% | A | A− | 28 min | $139,510 |
| Yorkshire | under 3% | B+ | A | 34 min | $112,829 |
| Sudley | under 3% | B | A | 35 min | $94,309 |
| Chantilly | 6% | A+ | A | 28 min | $157,124 |
| Loch Lomond | under 3% | A− | A− | 32 min | $113,790 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bull Run’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Bull Run: questions
What is the median household income in Bull Run?
$241,933 (±$12,732) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bull Run?
4.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bull Run?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bull Run work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springfield (7%, 17 mi), Reston (7%, 11 mi), Arlington (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bull Run walkable?
Bull Run is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bull Run without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bull Run, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bull Run
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.