Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Grundy has 2.4 jobs for every working resident: 678 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 11% of workers, against 18% across Virginia. Grundy has 701 jobs for 288 working residents. Only 8% work in Grundy; the top destination outside it is Richlands (2%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Grundy
Grundy is where the jobs are
Grundy has 701 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,200 people are in town, 51% more than the 820 who live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Grundy than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Grundy fell from 1,242 in 2013 to 701 in 2023, −44%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Grundy are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Virginia worker. Time on the road ↓
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 288 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A workday in Grundy: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 265 residents head out to work and 23 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Grundy on a workday afternoon, 51% 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.
Jobs in Grundy: what the 701 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grundy, 2013 → 2023: 1,242 → 701. 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 Grundy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes to work from Grundy
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grundy workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 271 commuters (the 11% 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.
Where the people who work in Grundy live
Where Grundy clocks in
2% of workers
2% of workers
1% 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.
How far Grundy’s workers travel
About 28% 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 Grundy: questions
What is the median household income in Grundy?
$40,804 (±$25,348) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grundy?
23.5%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grundy?
18 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grundy work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richlands (2%, 20 mi), Roanoke (2%, 118 mi), Lebanon (1%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Grundy 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 Grundy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grundy
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.