Photo: Photo by Brian Wheeler, Charlottesville Tomorrow. · CC BY 2.0Crozet’s household incomes are higher than in 91% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income A: better than 86% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #91 of 253 in Virginia.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns · #196 of 253 in Virginia.
Working residents average 27 minutes each way (Virginia 27, U.S. 26). Only 6% work in Crozet; the top destination outside it is Charlottesville (21%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Crozet
The better-paid jobs are outside Crozet
71% of Crozet residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 48% of the jobs based in Crozet pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Crozet has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Crozet went from 1,040 in 2013 to 1,596 in 2023, +53%. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Crozet
27% of Crozet workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Crozet’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Crozet is better than 86% of U.S. towns, #91 of 253 in Virginia. Household income is its strongest input ($129,417, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crozet could be anywhere from B to A+.
What the 1,596 jobs in Crozet are
1,596 jobs are based in Crozet. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Crozet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crozet, 2013 → 2023: 1,040 → 1,596. 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 27 minutes each way, about the VA average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crozet workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,259 commuters (the 27% who work from home are left out). Across Virginia: 83% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Crozet quiets down on a workday
On a workday 3,822 residents head out to work, 248 work right here, and 1,348 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,800 people are in Crozet on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.39 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.
21% of working residents work in Charlottesville
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Crozet clocks in
21% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Crozet commutes less than 12 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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.
Most trips from Crozet start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crozet is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns, #196 of 253 in Virginia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% of 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 4,451 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 0.0 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). 3.1% of Crozet households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Crozet’s commuters take a bus or train.
Crozet is 612th of 2,841 U.S. towns of 6,500 to 12,500 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Crozet, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Difficult Run VA | 9,938 | $250K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 610 | South Patrick Shores FL | 7,030 | $86K | 3.3% | 1.0% | 5% | A |
| 611 | White Marsh MD | 10,932 | $117K | 9.6% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| 612 | Crozet VA | 9,289 | $129K | 7.1% | 1.8% | 6% | A |
| 613 | Larchmont NY | 6,750 | $168K | 1.5% | 10.5% | 5% | A |
| 614 | Lake Mills WI | 6,655 | $91K | 5.1% | 2.4% | 18% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,841 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Crozet: questions
What is the median household income in Crozet?
$129,417 (±$34,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crozet?
7.1%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crozet?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crozet work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (21%, 12 mi), University of Virginia (18%, 10 mi), Pantops (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crozet walkable?
Crozet is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crozet without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crozet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crozet
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.