Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and earnings in Nettie, and the trip to work
Nettie has 198 jobs, and 140 of its residents work somewhere. 0% of workers work from home; West Virginia has 9%. Only 2% stay in Nettie for work; outside it, Summersville is the main destination (14%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Nettie, and who commutes in
On a workday 137 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 195 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Nettie on a workday afternoon, 32% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where the trip to work from Nettie ends
Where Nettie clocks in
14% of workers
9% 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.
Making and building: 77% of jobs based in Nettie
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nettie, 2014 → 2024: 154 → 198. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Nettie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Nettie
of Nettie workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 35 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 far it is to work from Nettie
About 37% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Nettie: questions
What is the poverty rate in Nettie?
10.4%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Nettie work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Summersville (14%, 9 mi), Charleston (9%, 51 mi), Richwood (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Nettie 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 Nettie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nettie
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.