Photo: Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) · CC BY-SA 2.5Jane Lew at work: jobs, income and the commute
Hardly any work in Jane Lew itself; outside it, Weston draws the most (12%, 6 miles). Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average; West Virginia averages 27, the U.S. 26. Employers in Jane Lew report 126 jobs, and 148 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Jane Lew for work, and who comes in
On a workday 147 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 125 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.85 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 Jane Lew goes to work
Where Jane Lew clocks in
12% of workers
11% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Jane Lew
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jane Lew, 2013 → 2023: 377 → 126. 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 Jane Lew’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Jane Lew’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jane Lew workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 186 commuters (the 4% 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 Jane Lew works
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 Jane Lew: questions
What is the median household income in Jane Lew?
$56,063 (±$2,036) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jane Lew?
5.6%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jane Lew?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jane Lew work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Weston (12%, 6 mi), Bridgeport (11%, 16 mi), Buckhannon (8%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Jane Lew without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jane Lew, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jane Lew
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.