Prichard has 3.4 jobs for every working resident: 590 people commute in to work
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; West Virginia has 9%. There are 606 jobs in Prichard, and 176 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten stay in Prichard for work; outside it, Huntington is the main destination (28%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Prichard
On a workday 160 residents head out to work and 16 work right here.
About 820 people are in Prichard on a workday afternoon, 111% more 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.
The daily trip into Prichard
Where Prichard clocks in
28% 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.
Goods jobs make up 67% of work in Prichard
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prichard, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 606. 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 Prichard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Prichard, about 42 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prichard workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 179 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.
The commute from Prichard, by distance
About 18% 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 Prichard: questions
What is the poverty rate in Prichard?
34.7%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prichard?
42 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prichard work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Huntington (28%, 15 mi), Louisa (6%, 9 mi), Charleston (6%, 53 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prichard without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Prichard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prichard
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.