Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0East Stone Gap has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
East Stone Gap has 6 jobs, and 164 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in East Stone Gap; the top destination outside it is Big Stone Gap (17%, 2 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers; Virginia has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of East Stone Gap on a workday
On a workday 164 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 530 people are in East Stone Gap on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Where East Stone Gap goes to work
Where East Stone Gap clocks in
17% of workers
16% of workers
10% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in East Stone Gap
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Stone Gap, 2013 → 2023: 20 → 6. 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 East Stone Gap’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in East Stone Gap
of East Stone Gap workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 417 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.
Half of East Stone Gap commutes less than 12 miles
About 19% 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 East Stone Gap: questions
What is the median household income in East Stone Gap?
$90,484 (±$81,708) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in East Stone Gap?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in East Stone Gap work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Big Stone Gap (17%, 2 mi), Wise (16%, 12 mi), Norton (10%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around East Stone Gap 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 East Stone Gap, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Stone Gap
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.