Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Palmyra has 24.6 jobs per working resident, and 1,397 people come in to work
13% of workers have no commute at all, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole. There are 1,403 jobs in Palmyra for 57 working residents. About one in ten work in Palmyra; the top destination outside it is Charlottesville (5%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Palmyra’s population more than triples on a workday
On a workday 51 residents head out to work and 6 work right here.
About 1,500 people are in Palmyra on a workday afternoon, 787% 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.
Who travels to work in Palmyra, and from where
Where Palmyra clocks in
5% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Palmyra
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Palmyra, 2013 → 2023: 243 → 1,403. 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 Palmyra’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Palmyra
of Palmyra workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 62 commuters (the 13% 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.
Half of Palmyra commutes less than 18 miles
About 23% 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 Palmyra: questions
What is the poverty rate in Palmyra?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Palmyra work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (5%, 17 mi), Gordonsville (4%, 19 mi), University of Virginia (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Palmyra 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 Palmyra, from the people who make the trip.
More of Palmyra
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.