Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Weber City’s household incomes are lower than in 90% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 20.3% of residents, next to 9.9% across Virginia. For jobs and income Weber City is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C). Home is the office for 6% of workers (Virginia 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Weber City at work: what stands out
Many Weber City workers cross into Tennessee
53% of Weber City workers work outside Virginia, most of them in Tennessee, the Census survey finds. The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Weber City are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
28% of Weber City works in Kingsport
126 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Kingsport, TN, 7.3 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Weber City itself. The commute map ↓
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 448 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Weber City’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Weber City’s grade.
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Weber City’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, Weber City could be anywhere from D− to D.
28% of working residents work in Kingsport
Where Weber City clocks in
28% of workers
10% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Weber City
465 jobs are based in Weber City.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weber City, 2013 → 2023: 457 → 465. 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 Weber City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 429 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 446 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.04 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Weber City
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weber City workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 commuters (the 6% 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.
The distance from Weber City to work
About 18% 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.
Weber City is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 586 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). 9.1% of Weber City households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Weber City’s commuters take a bus or train.
Weber City and other U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Great Falls Crossing VA | 1,414 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Occoquan VA | 1,078 | $134K | 2.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 167 | Kincora VA | 1,008 | $134K | 8.8% | 6.3% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,011 | Powhatan Point OH | 1,407 | $49K | 21.4% | 6.7% | 4% | D− |
| 4,012 | Whitmire SC | 1,475 | $38K | 24.3% | 7.4% | 2% | D− |
| 4,013 | Weber City VA | 1,221 | $48K | 20.3% | 0.7% | 4% | D− |
| 4,014 | Gold Hill Township IL | 1,345 | $50K | 18.8% | 3.9% | 8% | D− |
| 4,015 | Rocky Boy West MT | 1,007 | $63K | 36.1% | 9.7% | 12% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Weber City, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
Next door is work for 10% of Weber City
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Weber City workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weber City | – | D− | C | 22 min | $47,778 |
| Gate City | 10% | D− | D | 22 min | $42,857 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Gate City. Darker towns draw more of Weber City’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Weber City: questions
What is the median household income in Weber City?
$47,778 (±$10,498) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weber City?
20.3%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weber City?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weber City work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kingsport (28%, 7 mi), Gate City (10%, 2 mi), Johnson City (5%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Weber City walkable?
Weber City is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weber City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weber City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weber City
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.