Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Duffield has 15.9 jobs per working resident, and 429 people come in to work
Home is the office for 5% of workers, against 18% across Virginia. Employers in Duffield report 429 jobs for 27 working residents. Hardly any stay in Duffield for work; outside it, Kingsport is the main destination (15%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Duffield’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 27 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 470 people are in Duffield on a workday afternoon, 591% more 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.
Commuting in to Duffield: where workers come from
Where Duffield clocks in
15% of workers
11% 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.
54% of the jobs in Duffield make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Duffield, 2013 → 2023: 455 → 429. 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 Duffield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Duffield: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Duffield workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 36 commuters (the 5% 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 Duffield’s workers travel
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.
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 Duffield: questions
What is the median household income in Duffield?
$86,875 (±$66,021) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Duffield?
1.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Duffield?
20 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Duffield work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kingsport (15%, 20 mi), Gate City (11%, 13 mi), Boone (4%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Duffield 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 Duffield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Duffield
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.