Photo: AviationFreak · CC BY-SA 4.0Tangier has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Tangier itself; outside it, Accomac draws the most (11%, 19 miles). Tangier has 10 jobs, and 179 of its residents work somewhere. 0% of workers work from home, where Virginia as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Tangier
On a workday 178 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 270 people are in Tangier on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 Tangier goes to work
Where Tangier clocks in
11% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Tangier is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tangier, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 10. 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 Tangier’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Tangier
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tangier workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 114 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.
The commute from Tangier, by distance
About 41% 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.
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 Tangier: questions
What is the median household income in Tangier?
$35,991 (±$15,084) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tangier?
2.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tangier?
18 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tangier work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Accomac (11%, 19 mi), Parksley (5%, 19 mi), Virginia Beach (4%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tangier without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 59% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tangier, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tangier
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.