Photo: Cecouchman · CC BY-SA 3.0Pamplin City has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Pamplin City has 5 jobs, against 59 working residents. Hardly any work in Pamplin City; the top destination outside it is Lynchburg (14%, 30 miles). The average commute, 27 minutes each way, matches the Virginia norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Pamplin City for work, and who comes in
On a workday 59 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 95 people are in Pamplin City on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 Pamplin City goes to work
Where Pamplin City clocks in
12% 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.
What Pamplin City’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pamplin City, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 5. 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 Pamplin City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Pamplin City spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pamplin City workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 87 commuters (the 24% 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.
How far Pamplin City’s workers travel
About 40% 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 Pamplin City: questions
What is the median household income in Pamplin City?
$68,750 (±$14,511) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pamplin City?
6.9%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pamplin City?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pamplin City work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lynchburg (14%, 30 mi), Appomattox (12%, 10 mi), Farmville (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pamplin City 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 Pamplin City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pamplin City
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.