Reynolds Homestead · Photo: MarmadukePercy · CC BY-SA 3.0Patrick Springs’ household incomes are lower than in 69% of U.S. towns
6% of workers work from home (Virginia 18%). 9.3% of residents are in poverty, next to 9.9% for Virginia as a whole. For jobs and income Patrick Springs is better than 27% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Patrick Springs
Patrick Springs makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Patrick Springs are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Patrick Springs residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Patrick Springs are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Virginia worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 663 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Patrick Springs
The poverty rate holds Patrick Springs’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Patrick Springs’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, Patrick Springs could be anywhere from D to B.
Goods jobs make up 56% of work in Patrick Springs
455 jobs are based in Patrick Springs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Patrick Springs, 2013 → 2023: 372 → 455. 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 Patrick Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Patrick Springs’ commute takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Patrick Springs workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 769 commuters (the 6% 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.
Who works in Patrick Springs, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 621 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 413 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in Stuart
Where Patrick Springs clocks in
17% of workers
8% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Patrick Springs
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.
The commute in Patrick Springs is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 817 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.8% of Patrick Springs households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Patrick Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000, Patrick Springs ranks 3,455th of 5,102 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Mason Neck VA | 2,039 | $168K | 1.1% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,453 | Bradford Township PA | 2,796 | $56K | 12.8% | 4.3% | 7% | C |
| 3,454 | Bald Eagle Township PA | 2,047 | $76K | 21.0% | 5.0% | 6% | C |
| 3,455 | Patrick Springs VA | 2,223 | $63K | 9.3% | 3.7% | 6% | C |
| 3,456 | Pagosa Springs CO | 1,838 | $51K | 18.2% | 0.0% | 49% | C |
| 3,457 | Savanna IL | 2,699 | $48K | 18.6% | 1.7% | 25% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Patrick Springs, 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 Patrick Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Patrick Springs?
$63,304 (±$20,659) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Patrick Springs?
9.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Patrick Springs?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Patrick Springs work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stuart (17%, 4 mi), Martinsville (8%, 19 mi), Collinsville (3%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Patrick Springs walkable?
Patrick Springs is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Patrick Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Patrick Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Patrick Springs
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.