Photo: Rex Walters · CC BY 2.0Paris has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
100% of workers work from home (Virginia 18%). 17 jobs are based in Paris for 34 working residents. Hardly any work in Paris itself; outside it, Marshall draws the most (6%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Paris for work, and who comes in
On a workday 34 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 46 people are in Paris on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Paris goes to work
Where Paris clocks in
6% of workers
3% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Paris
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paris, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 17. 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 Paris’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Paris
of Paris workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Paris
About 15% 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 Paris: questions
What is the poverty rate in Paris?
33.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Paris work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marshall (6%, 11 mi), Frederick (3%, 42 mi), Middleburg (3%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paris, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paris
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.