Photo: Russell Lee · Public domainGrant Town has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
The average commute takes 30 minutes each way, next to 27 for West Virginia and 26 for the U.S. Grant Town has 13 jobs, against 269 working residents. Hardly any stay in Grant Town for work; outside it, Fairmont is the main destination (16%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Grant Town apart
Grant Town is a place people come home to
There are 13 jobs based in Grant Town, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Grant Town has about 410 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Grant Town and Fairmont trade workers both ways
Fairmont is the top workplace for Grant Town residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Grant Town come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 269 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Grant Town quiets down on a workday
On a workday 268 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 410 people are in Grant Town on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 people from Grant Town work
Where Grant Town clocks in
16% of workers
13% 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.
Grant Town is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grant Town, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 13. 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 Grant Town’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Grant Town: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grant Town workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 190 commuters (the 6% 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.
Half of Grant Town commutes less than 13 miles
About 15% 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 Grant Town: questions
What is the median household income in Grant Town?
$64,688 (±$14,521) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grant Town?
25.3%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grant Town?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grant Town work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fairmont (16%, 6 mi), Morgantown (13%, 13 mi), Westover (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Grant Town without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grant Town, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grant Town
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.