Bruno has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 9% across West Virginia. Bruno has 19 jobs, against 131 working residents. Hardly any stay in Bruno for work; outside it, Logan is the main destination (11%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bruno by day and by night
On a workday 131 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 530 people are in Bruno on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 the trip to work from Bruno ends
Where Bruno clocks in
11% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
The kinds of work in Bruno
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 Bruno’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Bruno, about 68 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 21.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bruno workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 207 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.
The commute from Bruno, 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.
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 Bruno: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bruno?
4.9%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bruno?
68 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 Bruno work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (11%, 13 mi), Charleston (4%, 47 mi), Oceana (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bruno without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bruno, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bruno
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.