Brenton has 3.5 jobs for every working resident: 140 people commute in to work
Hardly any work in Brenton; the top destination outside it is Pineville (20%, 6 miles). Brenton has 140 jobs, and 40 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 9% for West Virginia as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Brenton by day and by night
On a workday 40 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 170 people are in Brenton on a workday afternoon, 141% 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.
Who travels to work in Brenton, and from where
Where Brenton clocks in
8% of workers
8% 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.
In Brenton, 95% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brenton, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 140. 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 Brenton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Brenton
of Brenton workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 58 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 Brenton works
About 30% 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 Brenton: questions
What is the poverty rate in Brenton?
0.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Brenton work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pineville (20%, 6 mi), Beckley (8%, 28 mi), Charleston (8%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Brenton 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 Brenton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brenton
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.