Photo: Eduardo Montes-Bradley · CC BY-SA 4.0Esmont has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any work in Esmont; the top destination outside it is Charlottesville (23%, 16 miles). Esmont has 6 jobs, against 201 working residents. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, where Virginia as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Esmont: the figures worth knowing
Who works in Esmont, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 201 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 560 people are in Esmont on a workday afternoon, 26% 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 Esmont goes to work
Where Esmont clocks in
23% 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.
A place that makes things: 33% of Esmont’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Esmont, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 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 Esmont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way for Esmont’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Esmont workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 281 commuters (the 6% 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.
The commute from Esmont, by distance
About 17% 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 Esmont: questions
What is the poverty rate in Esmont?
6.5%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Esmont?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Esmont work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (23%, 16 mi), University of Virginia (8%, 15 mi), Pantops (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Esmont 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 Esmont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Esmont
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.