Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Virgilina commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 10% of workers (Virginia 18%). Virgilina has 8 jobs, and 55 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Virgilina; the top destination outside it is South Boston (16%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Virgilina on a workday afternoon
On a workday 55 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 75 people are in Virgilina on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
The towns that employ Virgilina’s residents
Where Virgilina clocks in
16% 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: 50% of the jobs in Virgilina
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Virgilina, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 8. 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 Virgilina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Virgilina: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Virgilina workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 66 commuters (the 10% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Virgilina
About 36% 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 Virgilina: questions
What is the median household income in Virgilina?
$40,625 (±$27,483) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Virgilina?
22.8%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Virgilina?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Virgilina work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Boston (16%, 14 mi), Halifax (15%, 17 mi), Riverdale (13%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Virgilina 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 Virgilina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Virgilina
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.