Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Clarksville has 1.4 jobs for every working resident: 656 people commute in to work
Jobs & income D: better than 15% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability A−: more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 68% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 22 minutes each way (Virginia 27, U.S. 26). About one in ten work in Clarksville; the top destination outside it is Boydton (8%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Clarksville, in brief
A big share show a job far from home
40% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Clarksville
54% of Clarksville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 33% of the jobs based in Clarksville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 92% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Clarksville are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 38 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 483 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Clarksville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Clarksville is better than 15% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Clarksville’s grade up ($63,533, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.6%) is left out: Clarksville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Clarksville could be anywhere from D to C.
Half of Clarksville commutes less than 23 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 40% 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.
What the 695 jobs in Clarksville are
695 jobs are based in Clarksville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Clarksville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clarksville, 2013 → 2023: 656 → 695. 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.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Virginia
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clarksville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 504 commuters (the 11% who work from home are left out). Across Virginia: 83% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Clarksville fills up on a workday
On a workday 444 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 656 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Clarksville on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Boydton
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Clarksville clocks in
8% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Clarksville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clarksville is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Clarksville 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 567 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). 4.7% of Clarksville households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clarksville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Clarksville is 4,070th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Clarksville, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Haymarket VA | 1,602 | $174K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,068 | Byhalia MS | 1,412 | $39K | 34.9% | 6.9% | 5% | D |
| 4,069 | Orange Grove TX | 1,178 | $45K | 13.8% | 1.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,070 | Clarksville VA | 1,303 | $64K | 15.4% | 6.6% | 8% | D |
| 4,071 | Mullens WV | 1,336 | $62K | 13.8% | 0.9% | 9% | D |
| 4,072 | Stonington ME | 1,058 | $60K | 10.8% | 15.9% | 26% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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.
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 Clarksville: questions
What is the median household income in Clarksville?
$63,533 (±$16,161) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clarksville?
15.4%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clarksville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clarksville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boydton (8%, 10 mi), South Boston (5%, 20 mi), Oxford (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clarksville walkable?
Clarksville is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clarksville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clarksville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clarksville
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.