Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Lumberport has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 64 jobs in Lumberport for 246 working residents. Only 1% stay in Lumberport for work; outside it, Bridgeport is the main destination (16%, 8 miles). The average commute, 27 minutes each way, matches the West Virginia norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Lumberport
Fewer jobs are based in Lumberport than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Lumberport fell from 405 in 2013 to 64 in 2023, −84%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Lumberport is a place people come home to
There are 64 jobs based in Lumberport, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lumberport has about 470 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 246 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Lumberport is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lumberport, 2013 → 2023: 405 → 64. 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 Lumberport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Lumberport on a workday
On a workday 243 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 61 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Lumberport on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 Lumberport goes to work
Where Lumberport clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
5% 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.
About 27 minutes to work from Lumberport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lumberport workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 405 commuters (the 3% 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 Lumberport commutes less than 9 miles
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 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 Lumberport: questions
What is the median household income in Lumberport?
$47,917 (±$32,235) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lumberport?
6.5%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lumberport?
27 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lumberport work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bridgeport (16%, 8 mi), Clarksburg (14%, 7 mi), Fairmont (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lumberport 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 Lumberport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lumberport
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.