Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Yogaville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any stay in Yogaville for work; outside it, Charlottesville is the main destination (10%, 28 miles). Yogaville has 12 jobs, and 107 of its residents work somewhere. 7% of workers have no commute at all (Virginia 18%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Yogaville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 106 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 190 people are in Yogaville on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Where people from Yogaville work
Where Yogaville clocks in
10% 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 Yogaville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yogaville, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 12. 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 Yogaville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Yogaville spends getting to work: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yogaville workers work from home, vs 18% across Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 180 commuters (the 7% 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.
Half of Yogaville commutes less than 28 miles
About 29% 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 Yogaville: questions
What is the median household income in Yogaville?
$48,750 (±$24,551) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $93,170 across Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yogaville?
8.7%, against 9.9% across Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yogaville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Virginia and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yogaville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlottesville (10%, 28 mi), University of Virginia (9%, 27 mi), Buckingham Courthouse (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Yogaville 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 Yogaville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yogaville
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.