With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Camp Barrett works elsewhere
Getting around Camp Barrett on foot earns B. 26 jobs are based in Camp Barrett; 203 of its residents have a job. 36% of workers have no commute at all (Virginia 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Camp Barrett stands out on work
Camp Barrett is a place people come home to
There are 26 jobs based in Camp Barrett, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Camp Barrett’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Camp Barrett is Washington, DC, 35 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (31) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Camp Barrett are quick
The average trip to work takes 11 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 123 hours a year less on the road than the typical Virginia worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 203 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Camp Barrett by day
On a workday 203 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Camp Barrett on a workday afternoon, 11% 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 commute from Camp Barrett, by distance
About 26% 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.
Time on the road from Camp Barrett: about 11 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Camp Barrett workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,018 commuters (the 36% 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.
15% of working residents work in Washington
Where Camp Barrett clocks in
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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Camp Barrett
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Camp Barrett, 2013 → 2023: 38 → 26. 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 Camp Barrett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Camp Barrett gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Camp Barrett is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 53.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,600 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
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 Camp Barrett: questions
How long is the commute from Camp Barrett?
11 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 36% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Camp Barrett work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington (15%, 35 mi), Tysons (6%, 30 mi), Arlington (4%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Camp Barrett walkable?
Camp Barrett is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 54% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Camp Barrett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Camp Barrett
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.