Photo: bob · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Greenville trail those of 95% of U.S. towns
Greenville grades C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. 2.2% of residents are in poverty (Virginia 9.9%). 0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Greenville: the figures worth knowing
Why Greenville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Greenville is better than 41% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greenville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($41,691, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Greenville’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, Greenville could be anywhere from C to B−.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Greenville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 307 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.
Greenville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 401 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 172 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Greenville on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.44 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Stuarts Draft
Where Greenville clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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 the 177 jobs in Greenville are
177 jobs are based in Greenville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenville, 2013 → 2023: 197 → 177. 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 Greenville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Greenville’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
In Greenville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenville is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 307 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). 0.0% of Greenville households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greenville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Greenville is 1,850th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 167 | Kincora VA | 1,008 | $134K | 8.8% | 6.3% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,848 | Spring Valley Township KS | 1,004 | $86K | 13.8% | 4.0% | 0% | C+ |
| 1,849 | Todd Township MN | 1,515 | $87K | 9.0% | 3.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,850 | Greenville VA | 1,183 | $42K | 2.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,851 | Duncannon PA | 1,465 | $51K | 9.0% | 5.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,852 | Awendaw SC | 1,502 | $77K | 14.6% | 8.9% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Greenville, 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 Greenville: questions
What is the median household income in Greenville?
$41,691 (±$18,037) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenville?
2.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stuarts Draft (12%, 7 mi), Verona (12%, 15 mi), Fishersville (7%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenville walkable?
Greenville is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenville 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 Greenville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenville
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.