Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0Keysville has 1.7 jobs for every working resident: 462 people commute in to work
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers; Virginia has 18%. 479 jobs are based in Keysville for 275 working residents. Only 6% stay in Keysville for work; outside it, Farmville is the main destination (10%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Keysville at work: what stands out
A big share show a job far from home
35% 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 ↓
Keysville makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Keysville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Keysville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 14%. The jobs ↓
Keysville workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 27 across Virginia. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical 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 275 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The distance from Keysville to work
About 35% 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.
41% of the jobs in Keysville make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keysville, 2013 → 2023: 525 → 479. 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 Keysville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Keysville: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keysville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 373 commuters (the 7% 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 a workday changes Keysville
On a workday 258 residents head out to work and 17 work right here.
About 1,000 people are in Keysville on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The daily trip into Keysville
Where Keysville clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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 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 Keysville: questions
What is the median household income in Keysville?
$31,442 (±$24,067) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keysville?
32.1%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keysville?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keysville work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Farmville (10%, 18 mi), Charlotte Court House (8%, 9 mi), Lynchburg (6%, 46 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Keysville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Keysville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keysville
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.