Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHurt has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
4% of workers work from home (Virginia 18%). Employers in Hurt report 153 jobs, and 381 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Hurt D; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hurt and work: the main findings
Hurt’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Hurt is better than 14% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Hurt’s grade.
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Hurt’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, Hurt could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Each way, about 28 minutes from Hurt
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hurt workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 commuters (the 4% 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.
In and out of Hurt on a workday
On a workday 371 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 143 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Hurt on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
23% of working residents work in Altavista
Where Hurt clocks in
23% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Hurt
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hurt, 2013 → 2023: 180 → 153. 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 Hurt’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Hurt to work
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.
Most of Hurt commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hurt is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Hurt near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 573 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). 4.4% of Hurt households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hurt’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,694th of 4,866: where Hurt ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Haymarket VA | 1,602 | $174K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,692 | Royalton MN | 1,274 | $55K | 26.7% | 11.1% | 4% | D |
| 3,693 | Los Indios TX | 1,059 | $45K | 19.4% | 7.2% | 0% | D |
| 3,694 | Hurt VA | 1,234 | $59K | 16.7% | 2.5% | 3% | D |
| 3,695 | Huston Township PA | 1,232 | $61K | 14.7% | 1.7% | 2% | D |
| 3,696 | Ryegate VT | 1,131 | $66K | 14.5% | 1.6% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Hurt, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
The towns next door employ 23% of Hurt
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Altavista. Darker towns draw more of Hurt’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Hurt: questions
What is the median household income in Hurt?
$59,000 (±$18,091) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hurt?
16.7%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hurt?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hurt work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altavista (23%, 2 mi), Danville (4%, 36 mi), Lynchburg (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hurt walkable?
Hurt is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hurt 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 Hurt, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hurt
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.