Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Crewe has lower unemployment (2.8%) than 73% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Crewe C; getting around on foot earns it C. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers (Virginia 18%). Only 3% stay in Crewe for work; outside it, Richmond is the main destination (5%, 43 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Crewe
Inside Crewe’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Crewe is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Crewe’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crewe could be anywhere from D to B.
The distance from Crewe to work
About 30% 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.
Who works in Crewe, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 654 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 448 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.
0.69 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.
The towns that employ Crewe’s residents
Where Crewe clocks in
5% of workers
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.
Jobs in Crewe: what the 468 are
468 jobs are based in Crewe.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crewe, 2013 → 2023: 496 → 468. 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 Crewe’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes to work from Crewe
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crewe workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,261 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.
In Crewe, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crewe is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Virginia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,365 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). 6.0% of Crewe households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crewe’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Crewe ranks: 3,206th of 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Mason Neck VA | 2,039 | $168K | 1.1% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,204 | Middlefield OH | 2,767 | $65K | 9.8% | 8.9% | 15% | C |
| 3,205 | Bartlett TX | 1,678 | $67K | 14.3% | 4.2% | 1% | C |
| 3,206 | Crewe VA | 2,279 | $71K | 16.4% | 2.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,207 | Putney VT | 2,575 | $80K | 16.0% | 4.3% | 21% | C |
| 3,208 | East Missoula MT | 2,099 | $58K | 7.3% | 8.6% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Crewe, 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 Crewe: questions
What is the median household income in Crewe?
$70,625 (±$12,560) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crewe?
16.4%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crewe?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crewe work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richmond (5%, 43 mi), Burkeville (5%, 4 mi), Blackstone (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crewe walkable?
Crewe is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crewe without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crewe, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crewe
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.