Sunnyside · Photo: Kingrichard4867 · CC BY-SA 3.0Newsoms has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Home is the office for 5% of workers, where Virginia as a whole has 18%. Employers in Newsoms report 3 jobs; 111 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Newsoms for work; outside it, Franklin is the main destination (14%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Newsoms on a workday
On a workday 111 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Newsoms on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 Newsoms goes to work
Where Newsoms clocks in
14% of workers
5% of workers
5% 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 Newsoms: what the 3 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newsoms, 2014 → 2024: 5 → 3. 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 Newsoms’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Newsoms, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newsoms workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 140 commuters (the 5% 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 Newsoms
About 36% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Newsoms: questions
What is the median household income in Newsoms?
$57,969 (±$13,949) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newsoms?
12.5%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newsoms?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Newsoms work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Franklin (14%, 11 mi), Suffolk (5%, 28 mi), Courtland (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Newsoms without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Newsoms, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newsoms
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.