Photo: Mojo Hand · CC BY-SA 4.0Spotsylvania Courthouse has higher unemployment (10.7%) than 95% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Spotsylvania Courthouse C+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Only 4% work in Spotsylvania Courthouse itself; outside it, Fredericksburg draws the most (10%, 9 miles). Household incomes here are higher than in 73% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Spotsylvania Courthouse: the figures worth knowing
Spotsylvania Courthouse workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 43 minutes each way, against 27 across Virginia. Over a year that’s about 330 hours of commuting, 123 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Spotsylvania Courthouse has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Spotsylvania Courthouse went from 1,029 in 2014 to 1,760 in 2024, +71%. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Spotsylvania Courthouse is services
87% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 4% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Spotsylvania Courthouse gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Spotsylvania Courthouse is better than 35% of U.S. towns, #205 of 253 in Virginia. Household income holds Spotsylvania Courthouse’s grade up ($95,331, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Spotsylvania Courthouse could be anywhere from C− to A−.
About 43 minutes to work from Spotsylvania Courthouse
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spotsylvania Courthouse workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,780 commuters (the 17% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
1,760 jobs are based in Spotsylvania Courthouse.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spotsylvania Courthouse, 2014 → 2024: 1,029 → 1,760. 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 Spotsylvania Courthouse’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Spotsylvania Courthouse for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,506 residents head out to work, 114 work right here, and 1,646 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,300 people are in Spotsylvania Courthouse on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.67 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The places Spotsylvania Courthouse commutes to
Where Spotsylvania Courthouse clocks in
10% 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.
Where in the region Spotsylvania Courthouse works
About 22% 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.
In Spotsylvania Courthouse, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spotsylvania Courthouse is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns, #240 of 253 in Virginia. 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 3,335 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.9% of Spotsylvania Courthouse households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Spotsylvania Courthouse’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Spotsylvania Courthouse is 2,273rd of 3,205 U.S. towns of 5,000 to 9,700
| # | 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 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | South Run VA | 6,600 | $250K | 2.1% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,271 | Steelton PA | 6,328 | $58K | 19.6% | 5.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,272 | Warren MA | 5,122 | $66K | 9.0% | 7.4% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,273 | Spotsylvania Courthouse VA | 7,180 | $95K | 12.6% | 10.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,274 | Littlefield TX | 5,675 | $61K | 14.7% | 2.7% | 17% | C+ |
| 2,275 | Ridgeway NY | 6,429 | $70K | 10.4% | 5.3% | 17% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,205 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Spotsylvania Courthouse, 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 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 Spotsylvania Courthouse: questions
What is the median household income in Spotsylvania Courthouse?
$95,331 (±$28,049) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spotsylvania Courthouse?
12.6%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spotsylvania Courthouse?
43 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spotsylvania Courthouse work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fredericksburg (10%, 9 mi), Washington (2%, 58 mi), Arlington (2%, 54 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Spotsylvania Courthouse walkable?
Spotsylvania Courthouse is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spotsylvania Courthouse without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spotsylvania Courthouse, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spotsylvania Courthouse
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. 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.