Crabtree-Blackwell Farm · Photo: Rutke421 00:32, 25 April 2011 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Emory are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns
Only 4% work in Emory; the top destination outside it is Abingdon (21%, 9 miles). Poverty touches 3.4% of residents, against 9.9% across Virginia. Jobs and income earn Emory A−; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Emory, in a few figures
How Emory earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Emory is better than 79% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Emory’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.6%) is left out: Emory’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, Emory could be anywhere from C to A.
Commuting from Emory: about 33 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Emory workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 457 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.
How many people are in Emory by day
On a workday 380 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 444 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Emory’s residents
Where Emory clocks in
21% of workers
7% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
460 jobs are based in Emory.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Emory, 2013 → 2023: 22 → 460. 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 Emory’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Emory
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.
Emory is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Emory is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 38.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 575 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). 3.7% of Emory households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Emory’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Emory is 624th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | Bull Run Mountain Estates VA | 1,827 | $250K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 622 | Limestone IL | 1,518 | $104K | 4.7% | 3.9% | 1% | A− |
| 623 | Wheatland Township MN | 1,307 | $114K | 7.0% | 2.7% | 1% | A− |
| 624 | Emory VA | 1,419 | $112K | 3.4% | 7.6% | 4% | A− |
| 625 | Biglick Township OH | 1,137 | $103K | 3.4% | 4.4% | 1% | A− |
| 626 | Penn Township OH | 1,557 | $127K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Emory, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
Emory and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Emory workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory | – | A− | B+ | 33 min | $111,667 |
| Meadowview | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Meadowview: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Emory’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 Emory: questions
What is the median household income in Emory?
$111,667 (±$80,669) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Emory?
3.4%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Emory?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Emory work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Abingdon (21%, 9 mi), Marion (7%, 18 mi), Bristol (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Emory walkable?
Emory is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 38% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Emory without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Emory, from the people who make the trip.
More of Emory
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.