West View Schoolhouse · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHardly anyone in Weyers Cave is out of work
Jobs and income earn Weyers Cave A; getting around on foot earns it D−. 10% of workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Measured by household income, Weyers Cave is ahead of 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Weyers Cave and work: the main findings
Weyers Cave trades workers with the towns around it
Weyers Cave has about as many jobs (1,417) as working residents (1,299), but they are mostly different people: 1,226 residents leave for work each day while 1,344 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Weyers Cave are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Weyers Cave are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across Virginia. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Virginia worker. Time on the road ↓
Weyers Cave has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Weyers Cave went from 1,021 in 2013 to 1,417 in 2023, +39%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Weyers Cave
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Weyers Cave is better than 93% of U.S. towns, #64 of 253 in Virginia. Unemployment is its strongest input (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Weyers Cave could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
How many people are in Weyers Cave by day
On a workday 1,226 residents head out to work, 73 work right here, and 1,344 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 (1.09 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.
Getting to work from Weyers Cave takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weyers Cave workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,352 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.
Making and building: 32% of jobs based in Weyers Cave
1,417 jobs are based in Weyers Cave.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weyers Cave, 2013 → 2023: 1,021 → 1,417. 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 Weyers Cave’s own residents hold wherever they work.
15% of working residents work in Harrisonburg
Where Weyers Cave clocks in
15% 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.
Half of Weyers Cave commutes less than 12 miles
About 23% 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.
Getting around Weyers Cave: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weyers Cave is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns, #252 of 253 in Virginia. Both inputs place Weyers Cave near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,503 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). 0.0% of Weyers Cave households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Weyers Cave’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Weyers Cave is 266th of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Sully Square VA | 2,394 | $176K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | One Loudoun VA | 3,309 | $241K | 0.9% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Oak Grove VA | 2,408 | $174K | 0.6% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 264 | Barton WI | 2,769 | $120K | 6.1% | 1.5% | 2% | A |
| 265 | Gunter TX | 2,574 | $120K | 2.5% | 2.9% | 4% | A |
| 266 | Weyers Cave VA | 2,744 | $98K | 1.6% | 0.0% | 6% | A |
| 267 | Sag Harbor NY | 2,841 | $130K | 3.1% | 0.4% | 13% | A |
| 268 | Carnation WA | 2,471 | $153K | 1.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Weyers Cave, 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 Weyers Cave: questions
What is the median household income in Weyers Cave?
$97,791 (±$35,261) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weyers Cave?
1.6%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weyers Cave?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weyers Cave work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisonburg (15%, 11 mi), Verona (9%, 8 mi), Staunton (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Weyers Cave walkable?
Weyers Cave is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weyers Cave without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weyers Cave, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weyers Cave
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.