Photo: Nyttend · Public domainJobs and earnings in Concord, and the trip to work
Only 1% work in Concord itself; outside it, Lynchburg draws the most (35%, 12 miles). The two grades for Concord are C+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Concord and work: the main findings
One in three of Concord works in Lynchburg
213 working residents, 35%, have their main job in Lynchburg, 12 miles away. That’s 35 times as many as work in Concord itself. The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
40% of the jobs in Concord are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. 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; with 608 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Concord’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Concord is better than 38% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Concord’s grade up (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Concord’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Concord could be anywhere from D to A−.
Where people from Concord work
Where Concord clocks in
5% 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.
Concord works in goods: 28% of its jobs
488 jobs are based in Concord.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Concord, 2013 → 2023: 374 → 488. 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 Concord’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Concord on a workday afternoon
On a workday 601 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 481 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 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.
From Concord, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Concord workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 781 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far it is to work from Concord
About 23% 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.
In Concord, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Concord is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Concord 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 845 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). 6.3% of Concord households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Concord’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Concord ranks: 3,012th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Bull Run Mountain Estates VA | 1,827 | $250K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,010 | Prattsburgh NY | 1,980 | $77K | 7.1% | 2.6% | 10% | C+ |
| 3,011 | Hale Township OH | 1,529 | $78K | 9.4% | 3.6% | 3% | C+ |
| 3,012 | Concord VA | 1,462 | $71K | 13.3% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,013 | Athens NY | 1,581 | $84K | 11.1% | 5.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 3,014 | Scott NY | 1,063 | $94K | 12.8% | 10.7% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Concord, 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 Concord: questions
What is the median household income in Concord?
$71,058 (±$51,720) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Concord?
13.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Concord?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Concord work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lynchburg (35%, 12 mi), Rustburg (5%, 8 mi), Appomattox (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Concord walkable?
Concord is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Concord without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Concord, from the people who make the trip.
More of Concord
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.