Photo: Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) · CC BY-SA 2.5Making a living in Clendenin
For 1% of workers, the job is at home, where West Virginia as a whole has 9%. Only 3% work in Clendenin itself; outside it, Charleston draws the most (36%, 18 miles). Working residents average 33 minutes each way; West Virginia averages 27, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Clendenin, in a few figures
36% of Clendenin works in Charleston
88 working residents, 36%, have their main job in Charleston, 18 miles away. That’s 12 times as many as work in Clendenin itself. The commute map ↓
Clendenin workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across West Virginia. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical 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 244 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Clendenin work
Where Clendenin clocks in
36% of workers
6% 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.
From Clendenin, about 33 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clendenin workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 355 commuters (the 1% 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.
A workday in Clendenin: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 237 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 246 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 (1.04 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.
Services make up most of the work in Clendenin
253 jobs are based in Clendenin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clendenin, 2013 → 2023: 325 → 253. 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 Clendenin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Clendenin, by distance
About 19% 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 Clendenin: questions
What is the median household income in Clendenin?
$69,583 (±$40,408) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clendenin?
7.9%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clendenin?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clendenin work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charleston (36%, 18 mi), South Charleston (6%, 22 mi), Beckley (3%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Clendenin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clendenin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clendenin
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.