Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Victoria are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 18% for Virginia as a whole. 17.9% of residents are in poverty, against 9.9% across Virginia. The two grades for Victoria are D− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Victoria: the figures worth knowing
The four measures behind Victoria’s grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Victoria’s grade.
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Victoria’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Victoria could be anywhere from D− to D.
Short hops and long hauls from Victoria
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.
Victoria quiets down on a workday
On a workday 617 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 235 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Victoria on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.40 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 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Kenbridge
Where Victoria clocks in
10% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
Inside Victoria’s 256 jobs
256 jobs are based in Victoria.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Victoria, 2013 → 2023: 299 → 256. 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 Victoria’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Victoria’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Victoria workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 504 commuters (the 5% 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.
Most trips from Victoria start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Victoria is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 5.7% across Virginia, on an EPA index of 6.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 528 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). 13.2% of Victoria households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Victoria’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Victoria sits among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| 14 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Mason Neck VA | 2,039 | $168K | 1.1% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,660 | Chadbourn NC | 1,539 | $46K | 30.6% | 0.0% | 5% | D− |
| 5,661 | Wellington TX | 1,770 | $57K | 22.4% | 0.2% | 40% | D− |
| 5,662 | Victoria VA | 1,744 | $41K | 17.9% | 3.8% | 3% | D− |
| 5,663 | Maple Grove Township MI | 1,345 | $58K | 23.8% | 11.3% | 5% | D− |
| 5,664 | Marion Township OH | 2,260 | $45K | 27.3% | 5.9% | 6% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Victoria, 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 Victoria: questions
What is the median household income in Victoria?
$41,442 (±$9,245) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Victoria?
17.9%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Victoria?
28 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Victoria work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kenbridge (10%, 6 mi), Richmond (4%, 55 mi), Blackstone (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Victoria walkable?
Victoria is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Victoria without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Victoria, from the people who make the trip.
More of Victoria
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.