Photo: Nyttend · Public domainGlen Lyn draws 96 commuters a day, with 3.0 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Glen Lyn; the top destination outside it is Pearisburg (28%, 8 miles). Employers in Glen Lyn report 96 jobs for 32 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 18% across Virginia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Glen Lyn, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 32 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 160 people are in Glen Lyn on a workday afternoon, 70% 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.
Commuting in to Glen Lyn: where workers come from
Where Glen Lyn clocks in
28% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Jobs in Glen Lyn: what the 96 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glen Lyn, 2013 → 2023: 122 → 96. 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 Glen Lyn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes to work from Glen Lyn
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glen Lyn workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 28 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.
The distance from Glen Lyn to work
About 25% 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 Glen Lyn: questions
What is the poverty rate in Glen Lyn?
10.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glen Lyn?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glen Lyn work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pearisburg (28%, 8 mi), Christiansburg (9%, 30 mi), Blacksburg (9%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Glen Lyn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glen Lyn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glen Lyn
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.