Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Kenbridge has 2.6 jobs for every working resident: 922 people commute in to work
Jobs and income earn Kenbridge C; getting around on foot earns it C. Kenbridge has 962 jobs; 364 of its residents have a job. 8% of workers work from home; Virginia has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Kenbridge in brief
Kenbridge is where the jobs are
Kenbridge has 962 jobs, 2.6 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,700 people are in town, 54% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
40% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 364 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Kenbridge
On income, poverty and job access, Kenbridge is better than 30% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Kenbridge’s grade up (7.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Kenbridge’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kenbridge could be anywhere from D to B−.
A workday in Kenbridge: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 324 residents head out to work and 40 work right here.
About 1,700 people are in Kenbridge on a workday afternoon, 54% 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.
How far it is to work from Kenbridge
About 40% 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.
The towns that send workers to Kenbridge
Where Kenbridge clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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 Kenbridge’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kenbridge, 2013 → 2023: 1,248 → 962. 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 Kenbridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Kenbridge takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kenbridge workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 499 commuters (the 8% 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.
Getting around Kenbridge: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kenbridge is more walkable than 30% 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 543 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). 9.1% of Kenbridge households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kenbridge’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kenbridge places 2,111th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
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| 11 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Kincora VA | 1,008 | $134K | 8.8% | 6.3% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,109 | La Union NM | 1,071 | $56K | 14.1% | 8.2% | 1% | C |
| 2,110 | Grant NE | 1,158 | $71K | 8.4% | 0.4% | 38% | C |
| 2,111 | Kenbridge VA | 1,103 | $62K | 7.5% | 0.7% | 11% | C |
| 2,112 | New Vienna OH | 1,106 | $61K | 8.8% | 2.1% | 1% | C |
| 2,113 | Athena OR | 1,187 | $72K | 9.0% | 1.0% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Kenbridge, 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 Kenbridge: questions
What is the median household income in Kenbridge?
$61,603 (±$10,661) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kenbridge?
7.5%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kenbridge?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kenbridge work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richmond (6%, 53 mi), South Hill (5%, 16 mi), Blackstone (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kenbridge walkable?
Kenbridge is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kenbridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kenbridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kenbridge
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.