Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Stickleyville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Hardly any work in Stickleyville; the top destination outside it is Kingsport (9%, 24 miles). Employers in Stickleyville report 47 jobs; 109 of its residents have a job. 0% of workers work from home, where Virginia as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Stickleyville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 108 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 46 people come in from elsewhere.
About 81 people are in Stickleyville on a workday afternoon, 43% 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.
Where Stickleyville goes to work
Where Stickleyville clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
What Stickleyville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stickleyville, 2014 → 2024: 30 → 47. 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 Stickleyville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Stickleyville
of Stickleyville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 80 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.
Stickleyville’s commute, mile by mile
About 20% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Stickleyville workers work outside Virginia. The job records count 13% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Stickleyville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Stickleyville?
32.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Stickleyville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kingsport (9%, 24 mi), Pennington Gap (7%, 8 mi), Jonesville (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Stickleyville 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 Stickleyville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stickleyville
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.