Photo: Carmenshields · CC BY 3.0Gloucester Point has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 10% of workers, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole. Gloucester Point has 1,354 jobs; 4,216 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Gloucester Point B; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Gloucester Point
Gloucester Point workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 27 across Virginia. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Gloucester Point
56% of Gloucester Point residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Gloucester Point pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 93% leave town for their job. 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.
Where Gloucester Point’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gloucester Point is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #170 of 253 in Virginia. The poverty rate holds Gloucester Point’s grade up (7.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gloucester Point could be anywhere from C to A−.
About 35 minutes each way for Gloucester Point’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gloucester Point workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,582 commuters (the 10% 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 Gloucester Point’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gloucester Point, 2013 → 2023: 1,325 → 1,354. 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 Gloucester Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Gloucester Point: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,926 residents head out to work, 290 work right here, and 1,064 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Gloucester Point 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.
22% of working residents work in Newport News
Where Gloucester Point clocks in
22% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Half of Gloucester Point commutes less than 14 miles
About 15% 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 Gloucester Point start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gloucester Point is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns, #223 of 253 in Virginia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Virginia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,096 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). 1.6% of Gloucester Point households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gloucester Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Gloucester Point is 1,349th of 2,507 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Difficult Run VA | 9,938 | $250K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Belmont VA | 9,729 | $243K | 2.1% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Wakefield VA | 11,930 | $238K | 1.8% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,347 | Manchester NY | 9,225 | $69K | 13.9% | 1.8% | 13% | B |
| 1,348 | Claiborne LA | 13,308 | $72K | 11.3% | 3.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,349 | Gloucester Point VA | 11,109 | $74K | 7.5% | 3.4% | 7% | B |
| 1,350 | Hickory Hills IL | 14,101 | $77K | 11.4% | 6.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,351 | Dallas Township PA | 9,554 | $101K | 10.0% | 5.3% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Gloucester Point, 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 Gloucester Point: questions
What is the median household income in Gloucester Point?
$74,001 (±$13,256) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gloucester Point?
7.5%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gloucester Point?
35 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gloucester Point work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport News (22%, 14 mi), Hampton (6%, 19 mi), Gloucester Courthouse (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gloucester Point walkable?
Gloucester Point is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gloucester Point without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gloucester Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gloucester Point
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.