Photo: Rutke421 18:56, 10 April 2008 (UTC) · Public domainWith 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Glade Spring works elsewhere
Employers in Glade Spring report 114 jobs; 515 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Glade Spring is better than 59% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (D). 3% of workers have no commute at all (Virginia 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Glade Spring: the figures worth knowing
Glade Spring is a place people come home to
There are 114 jobs based in Glade Spring, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Glade Spring has about 970 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Glade Spring workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Glade Spring workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Glade Spring’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 16% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 515 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Glade Spring’s grade
The poverty rate holds Glade Spring’s grade up (5.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Glade Spring’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, Glade Spring could be anywhere from B− to B+.
A workday in Glade Spring: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 507 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 106 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Glade Spring on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Commuting from Glade Spring: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glade Spring workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 886 commuters (the 3% 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.
What Glade Spring’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glade Spring, 2013 → 2023: 63 → 114. 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 Glade Spring’s own residents hold wherever they work.
16% of working residents work in Abingdon
Where Glade Spring clocks in
16% of workers
8% 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.
The commute from Glade Spring, 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.
Most trips from Glade Spring start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 915 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). 3.5% of Glade Spring households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glade Spring’s commuters take a bus or train.
Glade Spring is 1,425th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | Haymarket VA | 1,602 | $174K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,423 | Burgin KY | 1,027 | $78K | 8.6% | 0.2% | 3% | B |
| 1,424 | Washington Township OH | 1,086 | $65K | 1.4% | 2.6% | 1% | B |
| 1,425 | Glade Spring VA | 1,366 | $81K | 5.4% | 1.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,426 | Jackson Township IN | 1,780 | $95K | 14.1% | 0.0% | 3% | B |
| 1,427 | Goodland Township MI | 1,739 | $108K | 8.4% | 6.8% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Glade Spring, 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 Glade Spring: questions
What is the median household income in Glade Spring?
$81,298 (±$8,957) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glade Spring?
5.4%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glade Spring?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glade Spring work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Abingdon (16%, 12 mi), Marion (8%, 15 mi), Bristol (4%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glade Spring walkable?
Glade Spring is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glade Spring 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 Glade Spring, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glade Spring
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.