Photo: Magnolia677 · CC BY 4.0Delbarton has 3.2 jobs for every working resident: 400 people commute in to work
There are 407 jobs in Delbarton for 127 working residents. Only 6% work in Delbarton itself; outside it, Williamson draws the most (13%, 5 miles). Commuters spend 17 minutes getting to work on average; the West Virginia average is 27, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Delbarton, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 120 residents head out to work and 7 work right here.
About 660 people are in Delbarton on a workday afternoon, 73% 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.
The daily trip into Delbarton
Where Delbarton clocks in
13% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Delbarton: what the 407 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delbarton, 2013 → 2023: 1,226 → 407. 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 Delbarton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes each way for Delbarton’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delbarton workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 75 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.
Where in the region Delbarton works
About 31% 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 Delbarton: questions
What is the median household income in Delbarton?
$40,750 (±$24,883) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delbarton?
30.9%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delbarton?
17 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 Delbarton work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williamson (13%, 5 mi), Logan (5%, 15 mi), Beckley (3%, 56 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Delbarton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delbarton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delbarton
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.