Aberdeen · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainPrince George has lower household incomes than 71% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, against 18% across Virginia. Below the poverty line: 19.2% of residents (Virginia 9.9%). Jobs and income earn Prince George C; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Prince George, in a few figures
The figures behind Prince George’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Prince George is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Prince George’s grade up (ahead of 65% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Prince George’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Prince George could be anywhere from C− to B.
Half of Prince George commutes less than 20 miles
About 18% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Prince George
On a workday 951 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 1,242 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Prince George on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
9% of working residents work in Richmond
Where Prince George clocks in
9% of workers
6% 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.
In Prince George, services account for most jobs
1,271 jobs are based in Prince George.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prince George, 2013 → 2023: 1,351 → 1,271. 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 Prince George’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Prince George: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prince George workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 780 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.
Few in Prince George walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Prince George is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Virginia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 830 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). 0.0% of Prince George households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Prince George’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Prince George comes 3,380th 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 15 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,378 | Rainbow Park FL | 2,056 | $67K | 12.9% | 4.2% | 1% | C |
| 3,379 | Pojoaque NM | 2,327 | $74K | 11.3% | 7.0% | 7% | C |
| 3,380 | Prince George VA | 1,829 | $62K | 19.2% | 0.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,381 | Lynchburg OH | 1,538 | $71K | 12.1% | 3.3% | 5% | C |
| 3,382 | Greensboro Township IN | 1,674 | $56K | 12.4% | 4.8% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Prince George, 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 Prince George: questions
What is the median household income in Prince George?
$61,571 (±$13,156) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prince George?
19.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prince George?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prince George work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richmond (9%, 24 mi), Hopewell (8%, 5 mi), Petersburg (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Prince George walkable?
Prince George is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Prince George 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 Prince George, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prince George
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.