Walker's Creek Presbyterian Church · Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0Mechanicsburg has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Mechanicsburg has 3 jobs, against 17 working residents. Hardly any work in Mechanicsburg itself; outside it, Wytheville draws the most (12%, 16 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mechanicsburg on a workday afternoon
On a workday 17 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 38 people are in Mechanicsburg on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Where Mechanicsburg goes to work
Where Mechanicsburg clocks in
12% of workers
12% of workers
12% 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.
Mechanicsburg makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Mechanicsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mechanicsburg
of Mechanicsburg workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 40 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.
The commute from Mechanicsburg, by distance
About 29% 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.
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Mechanicsburg workers work outside Virginia. The job records count 18% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mechanicsburg: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mechanicsburg?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mechanicsburg work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wytheville (12%, 16 mi), Blacksburg (12%, 29 mi), Princeton (12%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Mechanicsburg 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 Mechanicsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mechanicsburg
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.