Dooms has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
206 jobs are based in Dooms, against 587 working residents. Jobs and income earn Dooms A−; getting around on foot earns it D−. Only 2% work in Dooms itself; outside it, Waynesboro draws the most (17%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dooms at work: what stands out
Inside Dooms’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Dooms is better than 78% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Dooms’ grade up (1.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Dooms’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, Dooms could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Out of Dooms to work: where people go
Where Dooms clocks in
17% 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.
Who commutes out of Dooms, and who commutes in
On a workday 575 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 194 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Dooms on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Dooms works in goods: 50% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dooms, 2013 → 2023: 183 → 206. 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 Dooms’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Dooms: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dooms workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 610 commuters (the 21% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Dooms
About 20% 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.
Few in Dooms walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dooms is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Dooms 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 775 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 Dooms households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dooms’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Dooms is 732nd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 730 | Corralitos CA | 1,884 | $171K | 7.4% | 1.2% | 2% | A− |
| 731 | Duncan Falls OH | 1,355 | $116K | 3.1% | 0.0% | 4% | A− |
| 732 | Dooms VA | 1,454 | $87K | 1.2% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 733 | Durant IA | 1,800 | $82K | 7.8% | 0.3% | 12% | A− |
| 734 | Elysian Township MN | 1,042 | $100K | 2.0% | 3.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Dooms, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
Work next door: 18% of Dooms’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dooms workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dooms | – | A− | D− | 30 min | $87,292 |
| Waynesboro | 17% | C+ | B+ | 21 min | $59,994 |
| Crimora | 1% | B | D− | 23 min | $83,158 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Waynesboro. Darker towns draw more of Dooms’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 Dooms: questions
What is the median household income in Dooms?
$87,292 (±$76,403) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dooms?
1.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dooms?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dooms work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waynesboro (17%, 4 mi), Fishersville (8%, 7 mi), Verona (7%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dooms walkable?
Dooms is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dooms 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 Dooms, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dooms
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.