Homestead Dairy Barns · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainA job hub: Warm Springs has 4.9 jobs per working resident, and 302 people come in to work
About one in ten stay in Warm Springs for work; outside it, Hot Springs is the main destination (25%, 4 miles). Employers in Warm Springs report 308 jobs, and 63 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Virginia as a whole has 18%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Warm Springs
On a workday 57 residents head out to work and 6 work right here.
About 260 people are in Warm Springs on a workday afternoon, 1289% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Warm Springs, and from where
Where Warm Springs clocks in
25% of workers
3% 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.
Warm Springs is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warm Springs, 2014 → 2024: 227 → 308. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Warm Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Warm Springs
of Warm Springs workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 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.
Miles to work from Warm Springs
About 32% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Warm Springs: questions
What is the poverty rate in Warm Springs?
0.0%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Warm Springs work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hot Springs (25%, 4 mi), Lexington (3%, 26 mi), Covington (3%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Warm Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 38% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warm Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warm Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.