Most of Glen Fork commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 9% for West Virginia as a whole. Employers in Glen Fork report 40 jobs; 85 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Glen Fork itself; outside it, Beckley draws the most (11%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Glen Fork quiets down on a workday
On a workday 85 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in Glen Fork on a workday afternoon, 11% 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 Glen Fork’s working residents head each day
Where Glen Fork clocks in
11% of workers
5% 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.
68% of the jobs in Glen Fork pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glen Fork, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 40. 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 Glen Fork’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Glen Fork
of Glen Fork workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 93 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.
How many miles Glen Fork commutes
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 Glen Fork: questions
What is the poverty rate in Glen Fork?
0.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Glen Fork work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beckley (11%, 21 mi), Pineville (9%, 8 mi), Charleston (5%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Glen Fork 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 Glen Fork, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glen Fork
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.