Bacon's Castle · Photo: Yellowute (Uploads) · Public domainMost of Rushmere commutes out: there are 0.0 jobs for every working resident
25 jobs are based in Rushmere, against 514 working residents. Jobs and income earn Rushmere B; getting around on foot earns it D−. Hardly any work in Rushmere itself; outside it, Newport News draws the most (18%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Rushmere
Rushmere’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Rushmere is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Rushmere’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Rushmere’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, Rushmere could be anywhere from C to A.
Who commutes out of Rushmere, and who commutes in
On a workday 513 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.
About 540 people are in Rushmere on a workday afternoon, 47% 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 Rushmere’s working residents head each day
Where Rushmere clocks in
18% of workers
11% 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.
In Rushmere, 28% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rushmere, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 25. 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 Rushmere’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Rushmere, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rushmere workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 418 commuters (the 11% 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.
Miles to work from Rushmere
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.
In Rushmere, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rushmere is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Rushmere near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 469 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). 4.4% of Rushmere households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rushmere’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rushmere places 640th of 3,133 on jobs and income among 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 638 | Irasburg VT | 1,199 | $99K | 2.5% | 1.8% | 6% | B |
| 639 | Pheasant Run OH | 1,258 | $65K | 4.1% | 5.6% | 0% | B |
| 640 | Rushmere VA | 1,033 | $74K | 2.6% | 4.8% | <1% | B |
| 641 | Dryden MI | 1,037 | $70K | 4.6% | 7.7% | 1% | B |
| 642 | Dover ID | 1,164 | $100K | 4.7% | 1.8% | 1% | 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 Rushmere, 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 Rushmere: questions
What is the median household income in Rushmere?
$73,750 (±$45,940) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rushmere?
2.6%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rushmere?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rushmere work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Newport News (18%, 8 mi), Smithfield (11%, 7 mi), Chesapeake (8%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rushmere walkable?
Rushmere is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rushmere without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rushmere, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rushmere
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.