Ebenezer Chapel · Photo: Coal town guy · CC BY-SA 4.0Charleston draws about two in five of Marmet’s working residents
Only 2% work in Marmet itself; outside it, Charleston draws the most (40%, 8 miles). Jobs and income earn Marmet C; getting around on foot earns it A. Measured by household income, Marmet is behind 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Marmet, in a few figures
40% of Marmet works in Charleston
220 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Charleston, 7.8 miles away. That’s 20 times as many as work in Marmet itself. The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Marmet than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Marmet fell from 609 in 2013 to 412 in 2023, −32%. 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 ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
42% of the jobs in Marmet are in trade, transport and utilities, against 23% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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 554 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Marmet’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Marmet is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Marmet’s grade up (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($52,115, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (12.1%) is left out: Marmet’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, Marmet could be anywhere from C− to C+.
Where people from Marmet work
Where Marmet clocks in
40% of workers
6% of workers
2% 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.
The 412 jobs based in Marmet
412 jobs are based in Marmet.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marmet, 2013 → 2023: 609 → 412. 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 Marmet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Marmet
On a workday 542 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 400 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Marmet on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.74 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Marmet’s commute takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marmet workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 454 commuters (the 5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Marmet
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Marmet
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marmet is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across West Virginia, on an EPA index of 8.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 478 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). 14.8% of Marmet households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 11% of Marmet’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marmet next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 3,491st of 5,877 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,489 | Mulberry IN | 1,224 | $59K | 15.3% | 6.6% | 3% | C |
| 3,490 | Rice TX | 1,286 | $66K | 16.2% | 2.1% | 3% | C |
| 3,491 | Marmet WV | 1,416 | $52K | 13.6% | 12.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,492 | Montmorency Township MI | 1,093 | $68K | 7.2% | 7.4% | 3% | C |
| 3,493 | Antwerp NY | 1,641 | $74K | 9.7% | 7.2% | 1% | 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 Marmet, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
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 Marmet: questions
What is the median household income in Marmet?
$52,115 (±$4,515) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marmet?
13.6%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marmet?
22 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marmet work?
2% work in town.
Is Marmet walkable?
Marmet is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marmet without a car?
11% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marmet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marmet
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.