With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Pine Grove works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers (West Virginia 9%). Employers in Pine Grove report 50 jobs, and 109 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Pine Grove for work; outside it, New Martinsville is the main destination (11%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Pine Grove, and who commutes in
On a workday 109 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere.
About 280 people are in Pine Grove on a workday afternoon, 17% 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 Pine Grove: the destinations
Where Pine Grove clocks in
11% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
In Pine Grove, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Grove, 2013 → 2023: 156 → 50. 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 Pine Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Pine Grove spends getting to work: about 44 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Grove workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 106 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 Pine Grove’s workers travel
About 36% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Pine Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Grove?
$43,333 (±$22,124) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Grove?
40.5%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Grove?
44 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 Pine Grove work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Martinsville (11%, 11 mi), Wheeling (6%, 35 mi), Charleston (3%, 98 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pine Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Grove
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.