Barrackville Covered Bridge · Photo: Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 3.0Barrackville has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any work in Barrackville; the top destination outside it is Fairmont (23%, 2 miles). There are 90 jobs in Barrackville, against 397 working residents. Barrackville grades B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Barrackville: the figures worth knowing
Barrackville and Fairmont trade workers both ways
Fairmont is the top workplace for Barrackville residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Barrackville come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Barrackville is a place people come home to
There are 90 jobs based in Barrackville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Barrackville has about 890 people in it, 26% 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; with 397 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Barrackville’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Barrackville is better than 70% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Barrackville’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 49% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Barrackville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Barrackville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Where the trip to work from Barrackville ends
Where Barrackville clocks in
23% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
Barrackville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 395 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Barrackville on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Most jobs in Barrackville are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Barrackville, 2013 → 2023: 138 → 90. 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 Barrackville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Barrackville’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Barrackville workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 530 commuters (the 12% 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.
The commute from Barrackville, by distance
About 16% 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.
In Barrackville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Barrackville is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across West Virginia, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 601 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). 9.0% of Barrackville households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Barrackville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Barrackville ranks 709th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 555 | Belle WV | 1,088 | $77K | 3.3% | 10.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 707 | Mathews LA | 1,598 | $87K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 708 | Unionville TN | 1,275 | $71K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 709 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 710 | Monterey MA | 1,093 | $152K | 4.1% | 9.4% | 9% | B+ |
| 711 | Austerlitz NY | 1,556 | $113K | 3.0% | 4.2% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 837 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 908 | Eleanor WV | 1,497 | $79K | 5.9% | 0.6% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Barrackville, the top three, the last and three more from West 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 Barrackville: questions
What is the median household income in Barrackville?
$78,558 (±$23,567) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Barrackville?
4.1%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Barrackville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Barrackville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fairmont (23%, 2 mi), Morgantown (11%, 15 mi), Bridgeport (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Barrackville walkable?
Barrackville is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Barrackville 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 Barrackville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Barrackville
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.