Prince Brothers General Store-Berry Store · Photo: Coal town guy · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Prince works elsewhere
0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 9% for West Virginia as a whole. 7 jobs are based in Prince; 33 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Prince itself; outside it, Rainelle draws the most (15%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Prince, and who commutes in
On a workday 33 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26 people are in Prince on a workday afternoon, 50% 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.
The places Prince commutes to
Where Prince clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Prince
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Prince’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Prince
of Prince workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 52 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.
Prince’s commute, mile by mile
About 35% 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 Prince: questions
What is the poverty rate in Prince?
0.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Prince work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rainelle (15%, 19 mi), Beckley (9%, 7 mi), Charleston (9%, 45 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prince 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 Prince, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prince
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.