Persinger House · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Mallow works elsewhere
For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Virginia 18%). 181 jobs are based in Mallow for 345 working residents. The trip to work takes 16 minutes on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mallow apart
Mallow and Covington trade workers both ways
Covington is the top workplace for Mallow residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Mallow come from (29% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Mallow than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Mallow fell from 842 in 2013 to 181 in 2023, −79%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Mallow are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical Virginia 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 345 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
27% of working residents work in Covington
Where Mallow clocks in
27% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Mallow
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mallow, 2013 → 2023: 842 → 181. 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 Mallow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 16 minutes each way for Mallow’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mallow workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 217 commuters (the 0% 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.
Mallow by day and by night
On a workday 340 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 176 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in Mallow on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer 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.
Where in the region Mallow works
About 24% 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.
Next door is work for 27% of Mallow
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Covington. Darker towns draw more of Mallow’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Mallow: questions
What is the median household income in Mallow?
$50,347 (±$17,669) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mallow?
7.1%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mallow?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mallow work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Covington (27%, 2 mi), Roanoke (7%, 34 mi), Selma (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mallow 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 Mallow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mallow
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.