James Ellwood Jones House · Photo: Coal town guy · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Maybeury commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Maybeury report 7 jobs for 17 working residents. Hardly any work in Maybeury itself; outside it, Welch draws the most (12%, 14 miles). 0% of workers work from home (West Virginia 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Maybeury on a workday
On a workday 17 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 78 people are in Maybeury on a workday afternoon, 11% 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 Maybeury’s working residents head each day
Where Maybeury clocks in
12% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
What Maybeury’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maybeury, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 7. 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 Maybeury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Maybeury
of Maybeury workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 41 commuters (the 0% 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 many miles Maybeury commutes
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Maybeury workers work outside West Virginia. The job records count 12% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Maybeury: questions
What is the poverty rate in Maybeury?
17.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Maybeury work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Welch (12%, 14 mi), Columbus (6%, 201 mi), St. Paul (6%, 62 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Maybeury 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 Maybeury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maybeury
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.