Shenandoah County Farm · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMaurertown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Jobs and income earn Maurertown B+; getting around on foot earns it D. Employers in Maurertown report 38 jobs for 445 working residents. 2% of workers have no commute at all; Virginia has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Maurertown stands out on work
Maurertown is a place people come home to
There are 38 jobs based in Maurertown, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Maurertown has about 690 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Maurertown workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 445 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Maurertown’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Maurertown is better than 72% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Maurertown’s grade up (2.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Maurertown’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, Maurertown could be anywhere from C to A.
Maurertown quiets down on a workday
On a workday 441 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Maurertown on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
From Maurertown, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maurertown workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 544 commuters (the 2% 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 Maurertown
About 31% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
13% of working residents work in Woodstock
Where Maurertown clocks in
13% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Maurertown: what the 38 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maurertown, 2014 → 2024: 45 → 38. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Maurertown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Maurertown, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Maurertown is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Maurertown near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 555 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). 0.0% of Maurertown households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Maurertown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Maurertown ranks 557th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Kincora VA | 1,008 | $134K | 8.8% | 6.3% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 555 | Bengal Township MI | 1,135 | $91K | 3.8% | 7.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 556 | Warsaw Township MN | 1,317 | $91K | 4.8% | 2.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 557 | Maurertown VA | 1,092 | $94K | 2.7% | 0.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 558 | Elkhart Lake WI | 1,190 | $94K | 6.3% | 9.9% | 9% | B+ |
| 559 | Krain Township MN | 1,025 | $102K | 4.0% | 2.3% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Maurertown, 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 2024, 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 Maurertown: questions
What is the median household income in Maurertown?
$93,929 (±$54,208) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maurertown?
2.7%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maurertown?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maurertown work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodstock (13%, 6 mi), Winchester (9%, 22 mi), Strasburg (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Maurertown walkable?
Maurertown is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maurertown without a car?
<1% 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 Maurertown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maurertown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.