Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Mitchell Heights works elsewhere
20% of workers work from home (West Virginia 9%). Employers in Mitchell Heights report 29 jobs, against 100 working residents. Hardly any stay in Mitchell Heights for work; outside it, Logan is the main destination (13%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Mitchell Heights on a workday
On a workday 100 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 29 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Mitchell Heights on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Commuting out of Mitchell Heights: the destinations
Where Mitchell Heights clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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 Mitchell Heights’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mitchell Heights, 2013 → 2023: 62 → 29. 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 Mitchell Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Mitchell Heights: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mitchell Heights workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 146 commuters (the 20% 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 Mitchell Heights commutes
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 Mitchell Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Mitchell Heights?
$80,000 (±$36,952) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mitchell Heights?
5.5%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mitchell Heights?
25 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mitchell Heights work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (13%, 4 mi), Charleston (9%, 36 mi), Mount Gay-Shamrock (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mitchell Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mitchell Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mitchell Heights
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.