Piney View has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Piney View has 90 jobs for 332 working residents. Hardly any work in Piney View itself; outside it, Beckley draws the most (39%, 5 miles). Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers (West Virginia 9%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Piney View in brief
39% of Piney View works in Beckley
130 working residents, 39%, have their main job in Beckley, 4.9 miles away. That’s far more as work in Piney View itself. The commute map ↓
Piney View is a place people come home to
There are 90 jobs based in Piney View, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Piney View has about 740 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Piney View residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 332 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where the trip to work from Piney View ends
Where Piney View clocks in
39% of workers
5% 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.
How a workday changes Piney View
On a workday 332 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 90 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Piney View on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 in the region Piney View works
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.
The kinds of work in Piney View
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Piney View, 2013 → 2023: 86 → 90. 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 Piney View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Piney View, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Piney View workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 461 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.
Piney View and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Piney View workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piney View | – | — | — | 21 min | $66,422 |
| Stanaford | under 2% | D | D | 20 min | $44,219 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Piney View’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Piney View: questions
What is the median household income in Piney View?
$66,422 (±$37,447) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Piney View?
1.5%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Piney View?
21 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 Piney View work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beckley (39%, 5 mi), Charleston (5%, 45 mi), Prosperity (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Piney View 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 Piney View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Piney View
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.