Photo: Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Birch River has 1.8 jobs per working resident, and 46 people come in to work
Hardly any work in Birch River itself; outside it, Summersville draws the most (20%, 15 miles). Birch River has 46 jobs; 25 of its residents have a job.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Birch River, and who commutes in
On a workday 25 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 28 people are in Birch River on a workday afternoon, 300% more 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 Birch River’s workers come from
Where Birch River clocks in
20% of workers
4% 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.
What Birch River’s employers do
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 Birch River’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Birch River’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 Birch River: questions
What is the poverty rate in Birch River?
0.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Birch River work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Summersville (20%, 15 mi), Sophia (4%, 61 mi), Richwood (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Birch River, from the people who make the trip.
More of Birch River
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.