Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0Mount Jackson draws 1,585 commuters a day, with 2.1 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Mount Jackson is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (B−). Employers in Mount Jackson report 1,721 jobs, against 815 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Mount Jackson
Mount Jackson is where the jobs are
Mount Jackson has 1,721 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,900 people are in town, 44% more than the 2,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Mount Jackson has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Mount Jackson went from 1,011 in 2013 to 1,721 in 2023, +70%. The jobs ↓
Mount Jackson makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Mount Jackson are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mount Jackson residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
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 815 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Mount Jackson
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Mount Jackson’s grade.
Unemployment (8.2%) is left out: Mount Jackson’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mount Jackson could be anywhere from D− to C+.
The daily commute in and out of Mount Jackson
On a workday 679 residents head out to work and 136 work right here.
About 2,900 people are in Mount Jackson on a workday afternoon, 44% more 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.
A place that makes things: 47% of Mount Jackson’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Jackson, 2013 → 2023: 1,011 → 1,721. 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 Jackson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting in to Mount Jackson: where workers come from
Where Mount Jackson clocks in
11% of workers
3% 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 daily trip from Mount Jackson: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Jackson workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 855 commuters (the 4% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mount Jackson
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Mount Jackson, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 891 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). 7.6% of Mount Jackson households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Jackson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Mount Jackson is 4,782nd among 5,793 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 12 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,780 | Flora MS | 1,677 | $37K | 27.9% | 5.7% | 8% | D |
| 4,781 | Kahoka MO | 1,962 | $48K | 11.0% | 9.3% | 35% | D |
| 4,782 | Mount Jackson VA | 2,040 | $52K | 16.3% | 8.2% | 17% | D |
| 4,783 | Austin Township MI | 1,805 | $64K | 17.2% | 2.1% | 1% | D |
| 4,784 | University Park NM | 2,782 | $30K | 30.2% | 14.0% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Mount Jackson, 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 Mount Jackson: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Jackson?
$52,297 (±$13,523) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Jackson?
16.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Jackson?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Jackson work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Woodstock (11%, 12 mi), Columbia Furnace (7%, 10 mi), Winchester (3%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Jackson walkable?
Mount Jackson is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Jackson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Jackson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Jackson
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.