Lantz Mill · Photo: Kevin M. Byrne · CC BY-SA 3.0Edinburg has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 900 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 8% of workers, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole. Employers in Edinburg report 924 jobs for 502 working residents. For jobs and income Edinburg is better than 9% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Edinburg apart
Edinburg is where the jobs are
Edinburg has 924 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Edinburg has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Edinburg went from 484 in 2013 to 924 in 2023, +91%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 502 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Edinburg gets the Jobs & income grade it does
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Edinburg’s grade.
Unemployment (9.1%) is left out: Edinburg’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, Edinburg could be anywhere from D− to C.
A workday in Edinburg: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 478 residents head out to work and 24 work right here.
About 1,600 people are in Edinburg on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Edinburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edinburg, 2013 → 2023: 484 → 924. 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 Edinburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Edinburg commutes
About 34% 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.
Where the people who work in Edinburg live
Where Edinburg clocks in
16% of workers
7% 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.
Edinburg’s commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edinburg workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 790 commuters (the 8% 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.
For most of Edinburg, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 860 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). 7.7% of Edinburg households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edinburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Edinburg is 4,051st among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Haymarket VA | 1,602 | $174K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,049 | Fremont NC | 1,237 | $52K | 28.2% | 6.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,050 | Kingston OK | 1,480 | $46K | 13.6% | 2.2% | 14% | D |
| 4,051 | Edinburg VA | 1,225 | $57K | 21.1% | 9.1% | 5% | D |
| 4,052 | Ten Lake Township MN | 1,092 | $71K | 24.1% | 10.9% | 2% | D |
| 4,053 | Williamstown NY | 1,356 | $62K | 16.7% | 4.6% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Edinburg, 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 Edinburg: questions
What is the median household income in Edinburg?
$56,686 (±$19,204) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edinburg?
21.1%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edinburg?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edinburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodstock (16%, 4 mi), Mount Jackson (7%, 8 mi), Columbia Furnace (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edinburg walkable?
Edinburg is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edinburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edinburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edinburg
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.