Lubeck has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
68 jobs are based in Lubeck for 530 working residents. Lubeck grades B− for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Hardly any stay in Lubeck for work; outside it, Parkersburg is the main destination (33%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Lubeck: the gist
Lubeck is a place people come home to
There are 68 jobs based in Lubeck, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lubeck has about 1,000 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Lubeck and Parkersburg trade workers both ways
Parkersburg is the top workplace for Lubeck residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Lubeck come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Lubeck residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 530 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Lubeck’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lubeck is better than 55% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lubeck’s grade up (5.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.7%) is left out: Lubeck’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lubeck could be anywhere from C to B+.
How a workday changes Lubeck
On a workday 529 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 67 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Lubeck on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 Lubeck work
Where Lubeck clocks in
33% of workers
4% 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.
How far it is to work from Lubeck
About 24% 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 Lubeck’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lubeck, 2013 → 2023: 216 → 68. 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 Lubeck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 19 minutes to work from Lubeck
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lubeck workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 378 commuters (the 15% 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.
In Lubeck, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lubeck is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lubeck near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 447 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). 6.7% of Lubeck households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lubeck’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lubeck is 1,948th among 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 872 | Belle WV | 1,088 | $77K | 3.3% | 10.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,109 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,302 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,946 | Rio FL | 1,232 | $92K | 13.6% | 17.6% | <1% | B− |
| 1,947 | Muniz TX | 1,601 | $91K | 20.7% | 3.8% | 0% | B− |
| 1,948 | Lubeck WV | 1,495 | $71K | 5.1% | 9.7% | <1% | B− |
| 1,949 | Mackinaw IL | 1,851 | $67K | 8.2% | 2.8% | 12% | B− |
| 1,950 | Trail Creek IN | 1,987 | $78K | 6.6% | 6.8% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Lubeck, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
How Lubeck compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Blennerhassett (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lubeck workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lubeck | – | B− | D− | 19 min | $71,171 |
| Blennerhassett | 1% | B− | C | 15 min | $88,487 |
| Washington | under 1% | C+ | D− | 35 min | $60,365 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lubeck’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 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 Lubeck: questions
What is the median household income in Lubeck?
$71,171 (±$10,097) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lubeck?
5.1%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lubeck?
19 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lubeck work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Parkersburg (33%, 4 mi), Vienna (4%, 8 mi), Belpre (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lubeck walkable?
Lubeck is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lubeck without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lubeck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lubeck
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. 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.