Brown's Ferry · Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Southampton Meadows works elsewhere
There are 2 jobs in Southampton Meadows, and 179 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Southampton Meadows for work; outside it, Suffolk is the main destination (8%, 18 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Virginia as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Southampton Meadows
On a workday 178 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Southampton Meadows on a workday afternoon, 42% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Southampton Meadows: the destinations
Where Southampton Meadows clocks in
8% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Most jobs in Southampton Meadows are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Southampton Meadows, 2014 → 2024: 4 → 2. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Southampton Meadows’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Southampton Meadows
of Southampton Meadows workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 89 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Southampton Meadows
About 34% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Southampton Meadows: questions
What is the median household income in Southampton Meadows?
$34,665 (±$34,069) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Southampton Meadows?
42.5%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Southampton Meadows work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Suffolk (8%, 18 mi), Franklin (6%, 6 mi), Richmond (3%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Southampton Meadows without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Southampton Meadows, from the people who make the trip.
More of Southampton Meadows
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.