Nokesville Truss Bridge · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Nokesville has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Nokesville has 322 jobs for 854 working residents. Jobs and income earn Nokesville A; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 2% work in Nokesville; the top destination outside it is Manassas (7%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Nokesville, in brief
Inside Nokesville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Nokesville is better than 86% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (3.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Nokesville’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, Nokesville could be anywhere from C to A+.
A place that makes things: 29% of Nokesville’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nokesville, 2013 → 2023: 369 → 322. 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 Nokesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Nokesville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 841 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 309 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Nokesville on a workday afternoon, 43% 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 the trip to work from Nokesville ends
Where Nokesville clocks in
7% of workers
4% 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.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Nokesville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nokesville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 509 commuters (the 22% 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.
Nokesville’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Few in Nokesville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Nokesville is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 656 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 45% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Nokesville households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Nokesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
327th of 4,866: where Nokesville ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Haymarket VA | 1,602 | $174K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 325 | Union Township IN | 1,256 | $103K | 3.5% | 0.6% | 3% | A |
| 326 | Medary WI | 1,563 | $105K | 3.8% | 1.6% | 1% | A |
| 327 | Nokesville VA | 1,226 | $97K | 3.8% | 4.7% | 2% | A |
| 328 | Deerfield WI | 1,613 | $118K | 7.0% | 2.0% | <1% | A |
| 329 | Laymantown VA | 1,626 | $88K | 1.2% | 3.7% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Nokesville, 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 Nokesville: questions
What is the median household income in Nokesville?
$96,932 (±$78,639) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nokesville?
3.8%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nokesville?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nokesville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Manassas (7%, 6 mi), Chantilly (4%, 15 mi), Washington (4%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nokesville walkable?
Nokesville is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nokesville without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nokesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nokesville
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.