Coiner House · Photo: Gshamilton · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Crimora commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Virginia as a whole has 18%. Employers in Crimora report 125 jobs for 1,008 working residents. Crimora grades B for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Crimora: the figures worth knowing
Crimora is a place people come home to
There are 125 jobs based in Crimora, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Crimora has about 370 people in it, 71% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Crimora workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
How Crimora earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Crimora is better than 57% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Crimora’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Crimora’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, Crimora could be anywhere from C to A−.
Crimora by day and by night
On a workday 1,005 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 122 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in Crimora on a workday afternoon, 71% 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.
About 23 minutes each way for Crimora’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crimora workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 734 commuters (the 0% 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.
12% of working residents work in Waynesboro
Where Crimora clocks in
12% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 28% of the jobs in Crimora
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crimora, 2013 → 2023: 79 → 125. 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 Crimora’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Crimora commutes
About 22% 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.
Crimora is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crimora is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Crimora 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 734 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). 0.0% of Crimora households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Crimora’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Crimora is 1,354th among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Haymarket VA | 1,602 | $174K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,352 | Stanchfield Township MN | 1,198 | $88K | 7.5% | 8.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,353 | Lewiston WI | 1,244 | $91K | 9.6% | 1.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,354 | Crimora VA | 1,252 | $83K | 9.0% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| 1,355 | Port Byron Township IL | 1,359 | $77K | 10.3% | 4.4% | 3% | B |
| 1,356 | Center Township KS | 1,116 | $79K | 2.5% | 0.5% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Crimora, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
How Crimora compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Crimora’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Crimora: questions
What is the median household income in Crimora?
$83,158 (±$13,169) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crimora?
9.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crimora?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crimora work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waynesboro (12%, 7 mi), Stuarts Draft (9%, 14 mi), Harrisonburg (8%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crimora walkable?
Crimora is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crimora without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crimora, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crimora
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.