Krenn School · Photo: Patricia J Harris · CC BY-SA 4.0Work, pay and getting to work in Auburn
Commuters spend 53 minutes getting to work on average, next to 27 for West Virginia and 26 for the U.S. At home: 0% of workers have no commute at all (West Virginia 9%). Hardly any work in Auburn itself; outside it, Harrisville draws the most (23%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Auburn
On a workday 30 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 46 people are in Auburn on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
0.00 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.
Out of Auburn to work: where people go
Where Auburn clocks in
23% of workers
13% of workers
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.
About 53 minutes each way for Auburn’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Auburn workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across West Virginia: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where in the region Auburn works
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.
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 Auburn: questions
What is the poverty rate in Auburn?
76.9%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Auburn?
53 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Auburn work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisville (23%, 13 mi), Parkersburg (13%, 38 mi), Ellenboro (10%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Auburn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Auburn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Auburn
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.