Photo: Dclemens1971 · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Lansdowne top those of 97% of U.S. towns
32% of workers work from home (Virginia 18%). Poverty touches 3.6% of residents; Virginia has 9.9%. For jobs and income Lansdowne is among the top U.S. towns (A+); for walkability it is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Lansdowne, in brief
Lansdowne trades workers with the towns around it
Lansdowne has about as many jobs (5,998) as working residents (6,196), but they are mostly different people: 5,904 residents leave for work each day while 5,706 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Lansdowne are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Lansdowne
32% of Lansdowne workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Lansdowne is services
95% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 1% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Lansdowne draws workers from far and wide
The 5,998 jobs in Lansdowne are filled from a wide area. Lansdowne’s own residents hold 5% and the ten next-biggest home towns 26%; the other 69% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
No single place dominates Lansdowne’s commute
The biggest draw, Reston, gets only 7% of working residents, and 52% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Lansdowne residents fan out across the region. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Lansdowne
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lansdowne is among the top U.S. towns, #20 of 253 in Virginia. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Lansdowne’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lansdowne could be anywhere from A to A+.
Who commutes out of Lansdowne, and who commutes in
On a workday 5,904 residents head out to work, 292 work right here, and 5,706 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Lansdowne
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lansdowne workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,519 commuters (the 32% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Lansdowne
5,998 jobs are based in Lansdowne.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lansdowne, 2013 → 2023: 5,709 → 5,998. 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 Lansdowne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
7% of working residents work in Reston
Where Lansdowne clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
Half of Lansdowne commutes less than 17 miles
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Lansdowne
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 8.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,630 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.0% of Lansdowne households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Lansdowne’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lansdowne next to U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000: 45th of 2,354 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5 | Difficult Run VA | 9,938 | $250K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Belmont VA | 9,729 | $243K | 2.1% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 14 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | East Greenwich Township NJ | 12,610 | $149K | 2.0% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| 44 | Broadlands VA | 14,353 | $241K | 1.0% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| 45 | Lansdowne VA | 12,328 | $169K | 3.6% | 1.8% | 5% | A+ |
| 46 | Maltby WA | 10,910 | $185K | 3.9% | 1.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 47 | Winnetka IL | 12,518 | $250K | 1.6% | 3.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Lansdowne, 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 Lansdowne: questions
What is the median household income in Lansdowne?
$168,731 (±$23,525) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lansdowne?
3.6%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lansdowne?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lansdowne work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reston (7%, 12 mi), Tysons (7%, 18 mi), Washington (6%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lansdowne walkable?
Lansdowne is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lansdowne without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lansdowne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lansdowne
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.