Photo: WaldoJ · CC BY-SA 3.0Earlysville’s household incomes are higher than in 94% of U.S. towns
31% of workers have no commute at all (Virginia 18%). 5.6% of residents live below the poverty line; Virginia has 9.9%. Jobs and income earn Earlysville A−; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Earlysville, in a few figures
Earlysville is a place people come home to
There are 93 jobs based in Earlysville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Earlysville has about 830 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Earlysville residents work close to home
60% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Commutes from Earlysville are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Virginia worker. 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; with 485 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Earlysville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Earlysville is better than 83% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Earlysville’s grade up ($142,060, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Earlysville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Earlysville could be anywhere from B to A.
Earlysville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 485 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 93 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Earlysville on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.19 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Earlysville
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.
The trip to work from Earlysville: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Earlysville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 407 commuters (the 31% 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.
21% of working residents work in Charlottesville
Where Earlysville clocks in
21% 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.
69% of the jobs in Earlysville pay over $3,333 a month
93 jobs are based in Earlysville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Earlysville, 2013 → 2023: 80 → 93. 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 Earlysville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Earlysville: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Earlysville is more walkable than 12% 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 592 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 under 0.1 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). 3.8% of Earlysville households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Earlysville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Earlysville is 343rd of 4,312 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 167 | Kincora VA | 1,008 | $134K | 8.8% | 6.3% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 341 | Harrison Township IN | 1,400 | $100K | 3.1% | 6.6% | 1% | A− |
| 342 | Huntington Township OH | 1,403 | $104K | 4.4% | 0.0% | 3% | A− |
| 343 | Earlysville VA | 1,222 | $142K | 5.6% | 2.0% | 0% | A− |
| 344 | Fairfield Township IN | 1,401 | $103K | 1.5% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| 345 | Wolf Creek UT | 1,339 | $131K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Earlysville, 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 Earlysville: questions
What is the median household income in Earlysville?
$142,060 (±$44,806) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Earlysville?
5.6%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Earlysville?
18 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 31% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Earlysville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (21%, 8 mi), University of Virginia (12%, 9 mi), Hollymead (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Earlysville walkable?
Earlysville is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Earlysville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Earlysville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Earlysville
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.