Photo: jpmueller99 from Shenandoah Valley of VA, USA · CC BY 2.0Shawsville has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Shawsville report 117 jobs for 474 working residents. Shawsville grades D for walkability. For 4% of workers, the job is at home (Virginia 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Shawsville
Shawsville is a place people come home to
There are 117 jobs based in Shawsville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Shawsville has about 1,100 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Shawsville 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 ↓
Commutes from Shawsville are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 46 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 474 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Shawsville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 463 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 106 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Shawsville on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
About 21 minutes to work from Shawsville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shawsville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 695 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.
18% of working residents work in Christiansburg
Where Shawsville clocks in
18% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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.
Goods jobs make up 38% of work in Shawsville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shawsville, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 117. 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 Shawsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Shawsville
About 16% 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.
For most of Shawsville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shawsville is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Shawsville 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 722 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). 7.7% of Shawsville households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shawsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Shawsville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Shawsville?
17.4%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shawsville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shawsville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Christiansburg (18%, 8 mi), Salem (9%, 14 mi), Roanoke (9%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shawsville walkable?
Shawsville is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shawsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shawsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shawsville
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.