Photo: Tom Woodward · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Wyndham are among the highest of any U.S. town
Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. Below the poverty line: 1.2% of residents, where Virginia as a whole has 9.9%. The two grades for Wyndham are A+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Wyndham in brief
Home offices are common in Wyndham
38% of Wyndham workers work from home, against 18% across Virginia. Time on the road ↓
Wyndham is a place people come home to
There are 669 jobs based in Wyndham, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Wyndham has about 7,600 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
Why Wyndham gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wyndham is better than 96% of U.S. towns, #39 of 253 in Virginia. Household income is its strongest input ($235,250, U.S. $80,734); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wyndham could be anywhere from A to A+.
How long Wyndham spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wyndham workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,148 commuters (the 37% 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.
Wyndham on a workday afternoon
On a workday 4,989 residents head out to work, 133 work right here, and 536 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,600 people are in Wyndham on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
0.13 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.
21% of working residents work in Richmond
Where Wyndham clocks in
21% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
Wyndham is a services town
669 jobs are based in Wyndham.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wyndham, 2013 → 2023: 537 → 669. 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 Wyndham’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wyndham
About 17% 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.
Most of Wyndham commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wyndham is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #212 of 253 in Virginia. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Virginia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,634 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.9% of Wyndham households have no vehicle (Virginia 6.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wyndham’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,695 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000, Wyndham comes 156th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Difficult Run VA | 9,938 | $250K | 1.4% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Belmont VA | 9,729 | $243K | 2.1% | 1.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 17 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 154 | Boxford MA | 8,520 | $201K | 3.1% | 3.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 155 | Evergreen CO | 8,602 | $150K | 3.3% | 1.1% | 8% | A+ |
| 156 | Wyndham VA | 12,099 | $235K | 1.2% | 3.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 157 | Totowa NJ | 11,166 | $114K | 4.1% | 3.0% | 9% | A+ |
| 158 | Babylon NY | 12,281 | $141K | 3.5% | 3.5% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Wyndham, the top three, the last and three more from Virginia.
How Wyndham compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Short Pump (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wyndham workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyndham | – | A+ | C+ | 27 min | $235,250 |
| Short Pump | 4% | A+ | B+ | 22 min | $138,845 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wyndham’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 Wyndham: questions
What is the median household income in Wyndham?
$235,250 (±$29,566) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wyndham?
1.2%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wyndham?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 38% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wyndham work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richmond (21%, 13 mi), Innsbrook (9%, 3 mi), Short Pump (4%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wyndham walkable?
Wyndham is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wyndham without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wyndham, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wyndham
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.