Photo: Staff Sgt. Ezekiel Kitandwe · Public domainQuantico Base has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 1,693 people commute in to work
1,710 jobs are based in Quantico Base; 949 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Quantico Base is better than 72% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (B+). Only 2% work in Quantico Base itself; outside it, Washington draws the most (19%, 31 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Quantico Base, in brief
Quantico Base’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Quantico Base is Washington, DC, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (176) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Quantico Base is where the jobs are
Quantico Base has 1,710 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Quantico Base are quick
The average trip to work takes 12 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 115 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 949 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Quantico Base’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Quantico Base’s grade up (ahead of 80% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($72,821, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.3%) is left out: Quantico Base’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, Quantico Base could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The commute from Quantico Base, by distance
About 28% 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.
Who commutes out of Quantico Base, and who commutes in
On a workday 932 residents head out to work and 17 work right here.
About 6,600 people are in Quantico Base on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
Commuting from Quantico Base: about 12 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quantico Base workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,122 commuters (the 12% 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 travels to work in Quantico Base, and from where
Where Quantico Base clocks in
19% of workers
2% 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 Quantico Base, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quantico Base, 2013 → 2023: 1,051 → 1,710. 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 Quantico Base’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Quantico Base is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 23.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,568 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.0% of Quantico Base households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Quantico Base’s commuters take a bus or train.
Quantico Base next to U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,900: 1,090th of 3,432 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 7 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | South Run VA | 6,600 | $250K | 2.1% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,088 | Westport NC | 5,915 | $132K | 2.6% | 6.8% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,089 | Pinehurst TX | 4,266 | $62K | 6.0% | 3.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,090 | Quantico Base VA | 5,840 | $73K | 7.0% | 5.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,091 | Southport NC | 4,434 | $88K | 6.4% | 0.0% | 15% | B+ |
| 1,092 | Reed Township IL | 6,988 | $82K | 7.7% | 2.8% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,432 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Quantico Base, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
Around Quantico Base: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Quantico Base workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantico Base | – | B+ | B+ | 12 min | $72,821 |
| Triangle | under 2% | B | B | 39 min | $109,693 |
| Cherry Hill | under 2% | B+ | A | 41 min | $122,447 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Quantico Base’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 1% of Quantico Base workers work outside Virginia. The job records count 19% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Quantico Base: questions
What is the median household income in Quantico Base?
$72,821 (±$15,183) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quantico Base?
7.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quantico Base?
12 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quantico Base work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington (19%, 31 mi), Arlington (5%, 28 mi), Richmond (2%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quantico Base walkable?
Quantico Base is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 23% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quantico Base without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Quantico Base, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quantico Base
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.