Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Clintwood has 3.2 jobs for every working resident: 1,279 people commute in to work
Measured by household income, Clintwood is behind 85% of U.S. towns. There are 1,374 jobs in Clintwood, and 426 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Clintwood are D for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Clintwood: the figures worth knowing
Clintwood has far more jobs than workers
Clintwood has 1,374 jobs, 3.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,200 people are in town, 73% more than the 1,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Clintwood are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 77 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 426 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Clintwood
On income, poverty and job access, Clintwood is better than 7% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Clintwood’s grade.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Clintwood’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, Clintwood could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Who commutes out of Clintwood, and who commutes in
On a workday 331 residents head out to work and 95 work right here.
About 2,200 people are in Clintwood on a workday afternoon, 73% more 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.
About 17 minutes to work from Clintwood
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clintwood workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 452 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where Clintwood’s workers come from
Where Clintwood clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Clintwood
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clintwood, 2013 → 2023: 1,759 → 1,374. 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 Clintwood’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Clintwood works
About 17% 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.
Driving is how Clintwood gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clintwood is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Clintwood 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 506 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). 11.3% of Clintwood households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clintwood’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Clintwood ranks 4,742nd of 5,400 on jobs and income
| # | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 4,740 | Rock Port MO | 1,246 | $46K | 13.7% | 1.0% | 28% | D |
| 4,741 | Yorktown TX | 1,780 | $59K | 20.2% | 7.9% | 6% | D |
| 4,742 | Clintwood VA | 1,297 | $52K | 16.8% | 2.3% | 22% | D |
| 4,743 | Madrid NY | 1,713 | $64K | 26.5% | 8.0% | 8% | D |
| 4,744 | Thurman NY | 1,090 | $59K | 19.2% | 5.5% | 3% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Clintwood, 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 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 Clintwood: questions
What is the median household income in Clintwood?
$52,083 (±$12,511) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clintwood?
16.8%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clintwood?
17 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clintwood work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wise (7%, 14 mi), Norton (4%, 18 mi), Pound (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clintwood walkable?
Clintwood is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clintwood without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clintwood, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clintwood
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.