Guerrant House · Photo: Skye Marthaler · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Riner commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. There are 118 jobs in Riner; 402 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Riner B; 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 Riner, in a few figures
Riner is a place people come home to
There are 118 jobs based in Riner, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Riner has about 750 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Riner workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 402 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Riner
On income, poverty and job access, Riner is better than 59% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Riner’s grade up ($105,759, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Riner’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, Riner could be anywhere from C− to A.
Riner by day and by night
On a workday 395 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 111 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Riner 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.
Getting to work from Riner takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riner workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 486 commuters (the 4% 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.
21% of working residents work in Christiansburg
Where Riner clocks in
21% of workers
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.
The kinds of work in Riner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riner, 2013 → 2023: 89 → 118. 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 Riner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Riner’s workers travel
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.
Getting around Riner: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Riner is more walkable than 9% 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 507 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.0% of Riner households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Riner’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Riner is 781st among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | Kincora VA | 1,008 | $134K | 8.8% | 6.3% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Ruckersville VA | 1,399 | $102K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 779 | Center Township OH | 1,067 | $89K | 4.0% | 0.5% | 3% | B |
| 780 | Harlem Heights FL | 1,122 | $57K | 4.9% | 7.6% | 2% | B |
| 781 | Riner VA | 1,038 | $106K | 9.8% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 782 | New Berlin IL | 1,361 | $70K | 6.4% | 5.5% | 4% | B |
| 783 | Hillcrest IL | 1,210 | $81K | 9.6% | 3.9% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Riner, 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 Riner: questions
What is the median household income in Riner?
$105,759 (±$32,066) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riner?
9.8%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riner?
23 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riner work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Christiansburg (21%, 6 mi), Blacksburg (17%, 11 mi), Roanoke (8%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Riner walkable?
Riner is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Riner without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riner
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.