Locust Grove · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainTwin Lakes has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers; Virginia has 18%. Twin Lakes has 47 jobs; 726 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Twin Lakes C; getting around on foot earns it D−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Twin Lakes apart
Twin Lakes is a place people come home to
There are 47 jobs based in Twin Lakes, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Twin Lakes has about 880 people in it, 43% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Twin Lakes workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 44 minutes each way, against 27 across Virginia. Over a year that’s about 337 hours of commuting, 130 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Twin Lakes workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 726 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Twin Lakes
On income, poverty and job access, Twin Lakes is better than 27% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Twin Lakes’ grade.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Twin Lakes’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Twin Lakes could be anywhere from D to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Twin Lakes
On a workday 725 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 46 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Twin Lakes 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 2023, primary jobs.
From Twin Lakes, about 44 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Twin Lakes workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 752 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.
15% of working residents work in Charlottesville
Where Twin Lakes clocks in
15% 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.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Twin Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Twin Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 22 → 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Twin Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Twin Lakes
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Twin Lakes gets around
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 779 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). 1.6% of Twin Lakes households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Twin Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
Twin Lakes is 3,596th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 72 | Mason Neck VA | 2,039 | $168K | 1.1% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Bull Run Mountain Estates VA | 1,827 | $250K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,594 | Kiln MS | 2,016 | $72K | 18.2% | 5.8% | 9% | C |
| 3,595 | Prineville Lake Acres OR | 1,497 | $80K | 10.7% | 4.3% | 1% | C |
| 3,596 | Twin Lakes VA | 1,562 | $67K | 13.3% | 0.0% | <1% | C |
| 3,597 | Stockton KS | 1,400 | $63K | 6.9% | 1.2% | 33% | C |
| 3,598 | Terry MS | 1,557 | $48K | 13.7% | 3.9% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Twin Lakes, 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 Twin Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Twin Lakes?
$66,526 (±$7,544) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Twin Lakes?
13.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Twin Lakes?
44 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Twin Lakes work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (15%, 15 mi), University of Virginia (6%, 15 mi), Hollymead (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Twin Lakes walkable?
Twin Lakes is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Twin Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Twin Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Twin Lakes
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.