Most of Mallory commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Mallory has 151 jobs for 347 working residents. The two grades for Mallory are C+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The figures behind Mallory’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Mallory is better than 37% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mallory’s grade up ($101,546, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Mallory’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mallory could be anywhere from D− to B+.
Who commutes out of Mallory, and who commutes in
On a workday 338 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 142 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Mallory on a workday afternoon, 14% 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.
10% of working residents work in Logan
Where Mallory clocks in
10% of workers
4% 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.
Mallory makes things: 34% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mallory, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 151. 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 Mallory’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Mallory
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mallory workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 580 commuters (the 2% 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 far it is to work from Mallory
About 18% 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.
Mallory is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mallory is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mallory 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 594 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). 0.0% of Mallory households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mallory’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Mallory ranks: 2,863rd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 799 | Belle WV | 1,088 | $77K | 3.3% | 10.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,016 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,197 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,861 | Peru Township OH | 1,043 | $126K | 31.7% | 2.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,862 | Biltmore TN | 1,846 | $53K | 9.6% | 5.4% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,863 | Mallory WV | 1,417 | $102K | 11.6% | 2.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,864 | Daleville IN | 1,706 | $51K | 11.2% | 5.9% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,865 | Hamilton MO | 1,726 | $65K | 6.0% | 2.8% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Mallory, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
Mallory and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Man (4%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mallory workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallory | – | C+ | D− | 24 min | $101,546 |
| Man | 4% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Man: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mallory’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 Mallory: questions
What is the median household income in Mallory?
$101,546 (±$78,737) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mallory?
11.6%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mallory?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mallory work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (10%, 13 mi), Man (4%, 4 mi), Huntington (4%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mallory walkable?
Mallory is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mallory without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mallory, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mallory
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.