Bluemont Presbyterian Church and Cemetery · Photo: G Keith Hall · CC BY-SA 3.0Earning a living in Fancy Gap
0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole. Hardly any work in Fancy Gap; the top destination outside it is Hillsville (25%, 6 miles). Employers in Fancy Gap report 57 jobs, and 73 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Fancy Gap, and who commutes in
On a workday 73 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 57 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 (0.78 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.
Out of Fancy Gap to work: where people go
Where Fancy Gap clocks in
25% of workers
18% of workers
4% 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.
What Fancy Gap’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fancy Gap, 2013 → 2023: 61 → 57. 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 Fancy Gap’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Fancy Gap
of Fancy Gap workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 92 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.
How far it is to work from Fancy Gap
About 18% 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 Fancy Gap: questions
What is the median household income in Fancy Gap?
$98,798 (±$5,840) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fancy Gap?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fancy Gap work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hillsville (25%, 6 mi), Galax (18%, 12 mi), Pulaski (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fancy 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 Fancy Gap, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fancy 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.