Photo: Mojo Hand · CC BY-SA 3.0Nellysford’s household incomes are higher than in 93% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income B−: better than 54% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B: more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 25 minutes each way (Virginia 27, U.S. 26). Only 2% work in Nellysford; the top destination outside it is Charlottesville (10%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Nellysford
Home offices are common in Nellysford
37% of Nellysford workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Time on the road ↓
Nellysford’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Nellysford is Charlottesville, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (43) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Nellysford is a place people come home to
There are 126 jobs based in Nellysford, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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 426 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Nellysford’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Nellysford is better than 54% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Nellysford’s grade up ($136,442, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Nellysford’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, Nellysford could be anywhere from C− to A−.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Virginia
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nellysford workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 265 commuters (the 37% who work from home are left out). Across Virginia: 83% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Nellysford commutes less than 22 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 26% 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.
Nellysford quiets down on a workday
On a workday 416 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Nellysford on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Charlottesville
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Nellysford clocks in
10% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 126 jobs in Nellysford are
126 jobs are based in Nellysford. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Nellysford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nellysford, 2013 → 2023: 207 → 126. 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.
Most trips from Nellysford start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Nellysford is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 421 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 Nellysford households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Nellysford’s commuters take a bus or train.
Nellysford is 1,897th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Nellysford, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Mason Neck VA | 2,039 | $168K | 1.1% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Bull Run Mountain Estates VA | 1,827 | $250K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,895 | Republican Township IN | 1,632 | $97K | 8.4% | 5.5% | <1% | B− |
| 1,896 | Balsam Lake WI | 1,430 | $89K | 6.9% | 2.2% | 1% | B− |
| 1,897 | Nellysford VA | 1,584 | $136K | 10.4% | 3.1% | 2% | B− |
| 1,898 | Boone Township IL | 2,030 | $98K | 6.9% | 19.4% | 3% | B− |
| 1,899 | Berlin Township OH | 1,794 | $78K | 5.7% | 0.0% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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.
Nellysford and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Nellysford’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Nellysford workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nellysford | – | B− | B | 25 min | $136,442 |
| Wintergreen | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Wintergreen: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Nellysford: questions
What is the median household income in Nellysford?
$136,442 (±$54,707) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nellysford?
10.4%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nellysford?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 37% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nellysford work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (10%, 24 mi), Lovingston (5%, 11 mi), University of Virginia (5%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nellysford walkable?
Nellysford is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nellysford 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 Nellysford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nellysford
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.