Photo: Jweaver28 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Clifton has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any stay in Mount Clifton for work; outside it, Mount Jackson is the main destination (12%, 4 miles). 12 jobs are based in Mount Clifton; 50 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 18% across Virginia.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Mount Clifton, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Mount Clifton on a workday afternoon, 22% 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 Mount Clifton goes to work
Where Mount Clifton clocks in
12% of workers
10% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Clifton, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 12. 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 Mount Clifton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mount Clifton
of Mount Clifton workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 32 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.
Miles to work from Mount Clifton
About 33% 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.
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 Mount Clifton: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mount Clifton?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mount Clifton work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Jackson (12%, 4 mi), Woodstock (10%, 13 mi), Luray (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Clifton 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 Mount Clifton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Clifton
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.