Beards Fork has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Beards Fork has 1 jobs, and 41 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Beards Fork; the top destination outside it is Montgomery (22%, 9 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where West Virginia as a whole has 9%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Beards Fork, and who commutes in
On a workday 41 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6 people are in Beards Fork on a workday afternoon, 87% 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 Beards Fork work
Where Beards Fork clocks in
22% of workers
12% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Beards Fork’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Beards Fork
of Beards Fork workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 29 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.
Beards Fork’s commute, mile by mile
About 28% 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 Beards Fork: questions
What is the poverty rate in Beards Fork?
0.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Beards Fork work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery (22%, 9 mi), Beckley (12%, 20 mi), Charleston (7%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Beards Fork 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 Beards Fork, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beards Fork
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.