Photo: Haplology at English Wikipedia · Public domainThere are 1.9 jobs in Keswick for every working resident, and 295 people commute in
Hardly any work in Keswick; the top destination outside it is Charlottesville (23%, 7 miles). Employers in Keswick report 296 jobs, and 155 of its residents work somewhere. Home is the office for 80% of workers, against 18% across Virginia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Keswick, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 154 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 540 people are in Keswick on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.
1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The towns that send workers to Keswick
Where Keswick clocks in
23% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Keswick
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keswick, 2013 → 2023: 252 → 296. 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 Keswick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Keswick, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keswick workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 34 commuters (the 80% 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.
How far it is to work from Keswick
About 16% 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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Keswick: questions
What is the median household income in Keswick?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keswick?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keswick?
26 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 80% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keswick work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (23%, 7 mi), University of Virginia (14%, 9 mi), Pantops (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Keswick 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 Keswick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keswick
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.