Photo: Coal town guy · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Glen White
91 jobs are based in Glen White, and 64 of its residents work somewhere. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 9% for West Virginia as a whole. Only 5% work in Glen White itself; outside it, Beckley draws the most (19%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Glen White by day
On a workday 61 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Glen White on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.42 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.
Where people from Glen White work
Where Glen White clocks in
19% of workers
8% 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.
Glen White is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glen White, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 91. 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 White’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Glen White
of Glen White workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 193 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 far Glen White’s workers travel
About 29% 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 White: questions
What is the poverty rate in Glen White?
0.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Glen White work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beckley (19%, 7 mi), South Charleston (8%, 48 mi), Sophia (3%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Glen White 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 White, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glen White
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.