Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Granville are among the lowest of any U.S. town
Granville grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. Without college students, the poverty rate is 12.8%, where West Virginia as a whole has 16.0%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Granville
Granville fills up on a workday
Granville has 2,189 jobs, 5.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,100 people are in town, more than double the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Granville have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Granville went from 1,016 in 2014 to 2,189 in 2024, +115%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Granville works one town over
34% of working residents work in a town that borders Granville: Morgantown (27%), Westover (6%) and Star City (1%). Next door ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 442 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Granville
On income, poverty and job access, Granville is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Granville’s grade up (ahead of 66% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($31,901, U.S. $80,734).
44% of Granville’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (44% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 12.8%, against 45.8% for all residents. Unemployment (11.0%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Household income is not adjusted: student households count in the median.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Granville could be anywhere from D to B.
The workday shuffle in and out of Granville
On a workday 428 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 2,175 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Granville on a workday afternoon, 128% more than live here.
5.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
What work there is in Granville: 2,189 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Granville, 2014 → 2024: 1,016 → 2,189. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Granville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Granville
Where Granville clocks in
27% 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.
Granville’s commute takes about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Granville workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 529 commuters (the 10% 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 Granville commutes
About 17% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Granville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Granville is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.5% across West Virginia.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 589 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 15.9% of Granville households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Granville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Granville is 3,255th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 723 | Belle WV | 1,088 | $77K | 3.3% | 10.6% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 922 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,086 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,253 | Maggie Valley NC | 1,748 | $68K | 14.7% | 2.0% | 12% | C |
| 3,254 | Asotin WA | 1,187 | $77K | 10.2% | 3.8% | 7% | C |
| 3,255 | Granville WV | 1,362 | $32K | 45.8% | 11.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,256 | Green Lake WI | 1,040 | $56K | 11.6% | 4.0% | 11% | C |
| 3,257 | Bath NH | 1,112 | $68K | 8.1% | 3.9% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Granville, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
34% of Granville works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Morgantown (27%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Granville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granville | – | C | B+ | 16 min | $31,901 |
| Westover | 6% | B− | A− | 18 min | $60,769 |
| Star City | 1% | B− | A | 20 min | $59,123 |
| Morgantown | 27% | B− | A | 16 min | $44,727 |
| Osage | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Osage: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Granville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 44% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Granville: questions
What is the median household income in Granville?
$31,901 (±$12,733) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Granville?
45.8% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 12.8%. West Virginia: 16.7%.
How long is the commute from Granville?
16 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Granville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morgantown (27%, 3 mi), Westover (6%, 1 mi), Fairmont (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Granville walkable?
Granville is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Granville without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Granville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Granville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.