Photo: Dclemens1971 · CC BY 4.0Jobs and earnings in Ivy, and the trip to work
Hardly any work in Ivy; the top destination outside it is Charlottesville (29%, 6 miles). Working residents average 38 minutes each way; Virginia averages 27, the U.S. 26. Ivy has 231 jobs, and 330 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Ivy
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Ivy’s working residents have a job less than 7 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 38 minutes, longer than the Virginia average of 27. Time on the road ↓
Most Ivy residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
29% of Ivy works in Charlottesville
96 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Charlottesville, 6.4 miles away. That’s 29 times as many as work in Ivy itself. The commute map ↓
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 330 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Commuting from Ivy: about 38 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ivy workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 405 commuters (the 21% 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.
Miles to work from Ivy
About 30% 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.
Commuting out of Ivy: the destinations
Where Ivy clocks in
29% 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.
Who works in Ivy, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 328 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 229 people come in from elsewhere.
About 700 people are in Ivy on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
Goods jobs make up 37% of work in Ivy
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ivy, 2013 → 2023: 201 → 231. 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 Ivy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Ivy: questions
What is the median household income in Ivy?
$189,072 (±$49,992) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ivy?
3.1%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ivy?
38 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ivy work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (29%, 6 mi), University of Virginia (12%, 5 mi), Pantops (2%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ivy 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 Ivy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ivy
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.