Photo: FatCat96 · CC BY-SA 4.0Red Jacket has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
0% of workers work from home; West Virginia has 9%. Red Jacket has 19 jobs; 112 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Red Jacket itself; outside it, Williamson draws the most (10%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Red Jacket, and who commutes in
On a workday 111 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 18 people come in from elsewhere.
About 390 people are in Red Jacket on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 people from Red Jacket work
Where Red Jacket clocks in
10% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Red Jacket: what the 19 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Red Jacket, 2013 → 2023: 272 → 19. 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 Red Jacket’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Red Jacket
of Red Jacket workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 24 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 Red Jacket goes to work
About 45% 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.
Red Jacket and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Red Jacket workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Jacket | – | — | — | — | — |
| Matewan | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Matewan: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Red Jacket’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 Red Jacket: questions
What is the poverty rate in Red Jacket?
74.1%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Red Jacket work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williamson (10%, 8 mi), Beckley (5%, 54 mi), Charleston (4%, 56 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Red Jacket without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Red Jacket, from the people who make the trip.
More of Red Jacket
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.