Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Timberville commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
For 3% of workers, the job is at home (Virginia 18%). Employers in Timberville report 576 jobs; 1,557 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Timberville are C− for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Timberville, in brief
Stores, warehouses and trucking
60% of the jobs in Timberville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 22% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Few Timberville workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Timberville
56% of Timberville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 32% of the jobs based in Timberville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Timberville are held by workers 29 or younger, against 24% of Timberville’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Timberville empties out on a workday
About 2,200 people are in Timberville on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than the 3,200 who live here: 1,500 head out to work and 530 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
How Timberville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Timberville is better than 21% of U.S. towns, #235 of 253 in Virginia. Job access by car holds Timberville’s grade up (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Timberville could be anywhere from D to B−.
Jobs in Timberville: what the 576 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Timberville, 2013 → 2023: 259 → 576. 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 Timberville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Timberville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Timberville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,392 commuters (the 3% 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.
Timberville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,513 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 532 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Timberville on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
23% of working residents work in Harrisonburg
Where Timberville clocks in
23% of workers
4% 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.
Timberville’s commute, mile by mile
About 26% 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.
The commute in Timberville is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Timberville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #226 of 253 in Virginia. Both inputs place Timberville 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 1,431 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). 10.6% of Timberville households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Timberville’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Timberville is 3,675th of 4,698 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | One Loudoun VA | 3,309 | $241K | 0.9% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,673 | Gallipolis OH | 3,318 | $45K | 14.8% | 3.4% | 17% | C− |
| 3,674 | Brookville PA | 3,883 | $60K | 12.8% | 6.4% | 29% | C− |
| 3,675 | Timberville VA | 3,166 | $60K | 17.1% | 5.4% | 3% | C− |
| 3,676 | Bolivar Peninsula TX | 2,951 | $76K | 12.2% | 0.0% | 14% | C− |
| 3,677 | Forks WA | 3,488 | $60K | 19.5% | 2.8% | 48% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Timberville, 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 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 Timberville: questions
What is the median household income in Timberville?
$59,909 (±$6,643) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Timberville?
17.1%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Timberville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Timberville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisonburg (23%, 15 mi), Broadway (4%, 2 mi), Mount Jackson (2%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Timberville walkable?
Timberville is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Timberville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Timberville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Timberville
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.