Photo: Roger Puta · Public domainShenandoah Junction draws 557 commuters a day, with 2.5 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Shenandoah Junction B; getting around on foot earns it C−. Employers in Shenandoah Junction report 557 jobs; 225 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Shenandoah Junction itself; outside it, Martinsburg draws the most (7%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Shenandoah Junction and work: the main findings
Shenandoah Junction is where the jobs are
Shenandoah Junction has 557 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
55% of the jobs in Shenandoah Junction are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Shenandoah Junction pay better than its residents’ jobs
85% of the jobs based in Shenandoah Junction pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 64% of the jobs Shenandoah Junction residents hold. 100% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Shenandoah Junction. The jobs ↓
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 225 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Shenandoah Junction
On income, poverty and job access, Shenandoah Junction is better than 64% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Shenandoah Junction’s grade up ($94,821, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Shenandoah Junction’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Shenandoah Junction could be anywhere from C− to A.
The daily flow of workers through Shenandoah Junction
On a workday 225 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 1,500 people are in Shenandoah Junction on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
85% of the jobs in Shenandoah Junction pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shenandoah Junction, 2013 → 2023: 110 → 557. 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 Shenandoah Junction’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Shenandoah Junction live
Where Shenandoah Junction clocks in
7% 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.
About 24 minutes each way for Shenandoah Junction’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shenandoah Junction workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 596 commuters (the 9% 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 Shenandoah Junction’s workers travel
About 17% 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.
The commute in Shenandoah Junction is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shenandoah Junction is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across West Virginia, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 658 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Shenandoah Junction households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Shenandoah Junction’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Shenandoah Junction is 785th among 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 470 | Belle WV | 1,088 | $77K | 3.3% | 10.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 605 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 719 | Coal Fork WV | 1,423 | $70K | 2.3% | 29.5% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 783 | Cypress Landing NC | 1,044 | $84K | 0.5% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 784 | Madison Lake MN | 1,315 | $88K | 6.8% | 4.4% | 2% | B |
| 785 | Shenandoah Junction WV | 1,141 | $95K | 8.2% | 0.0% | 0% | B |
| 786 | Malvern IA | 1,073 | $84K | 6.5% | 1.0% | 7% | B |
| 787 | Claude TX | 1,190 | $78K | 1.9% | 0.9% | 13% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Shenandoah Junction, the top three, the last and three more from West Virginia.
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 Shenandoah Junction: questions
What is the median household income in Shenandoah Junction?
$94,821 (±$78,580) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shenandoah Junction?
8.2%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shenandoah Junction?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shenandoah Junction work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Martinsburg (7%, 11 mi), Shepherdstown (5%, 6 mi), Ranson corporation (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shenandoah Junction walkable?
Shenandoah Junction is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shenandoah Junction without a car?
1% 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 Shenandoah Junction, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shenandoah Junction
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.