Photo: Youngamerican · CC BY-SA 3.0Ceredo has lower household incomes than 88% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Ceredo D; getting around on foot earns it A. The poverty rate is 29.1%; West Virginia has 16.7%. Only 3% work in Ceredo itself; outside it, Huntington draws the most (33%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Ceredo apart on work
A lot of Ceredo works one town over
41% of working residents work in a town that borders Ceredo: Huntington (33%), Kenova (7%) and Burlington (1%). Next door ↓
Ceredo has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Ceredo went from 329 in 2013 to 478 in 2023, +45%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Ceredo are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 27 across West Virginia. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical West Virginia worker. Time on the road ↓
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 519 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Ceredo’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ceredo is better than 13% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Ceredo’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Ceredo’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ceredo could be anywhere from D to C+.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Ceredo
478 jobs are based in Ceredo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ceredo, 2013 → 2023: 329 → 478. 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 Ceredo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Ceredo: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ceredo workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 397 commuters (the 5% 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.
In and out of Ceredo on a workday
On a workday 502 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 461 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.92 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Ceredo commutes to
Where Ceredo clocks in
33% of workers
7% 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.
Where in the region Ceredo works
About 18% 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.
Ceredo is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ceredo is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across West Virginia, on an EPA index of 9.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 418 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). 18.9% of Ceredo households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ceredo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ceredo places 4,224th of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 723 | Belle WV | 1,088 | $77K | 3.3% | 10.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 922 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,086 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,222 | Jeffersonville OH | 1,246 | $46K | 36.0% | 3.4% | 5% | D |
| 4,223 | Waukomis OK | 1,324 | $61K | 18.4% | 1.2% | 3% | D |
| 4,224 | Ceredo WV | 1,318 | $50K | 29.1% | 5.2% | 3% | D |
| 4,225 | Denver Township MI | 1,175 | $62K | 18.3% | 14.2% | 1% | D |
| 4,226 | Coldsprings Township MI | 1,611 | $61K | 12.3% | 4.2% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Ceredo, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
The towns next door employ 41% of Ceredo
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ceredo workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceredo | – | D | A | 21 min | $49,635 |
| Kenova | 7% | B | A+ | 11 min | $53,683 |
| Huntington | 33% | D | A | 19 min | $45,100 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Huntington. Darker towns draw more of Ceredo’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Ceredo: questions
What is the median household income in Ceredo?
$49,635 (±$14,387) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ceredo?
29.1%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ceredo?
21 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ceredo work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Huntington (33%, 6 mi), Kenova (7%, 2 mi), Ashland (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ceredo walkable?
Ceredo is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ceredo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ceredo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ceredo
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.