Faber Double-Crib Barn · Photo: Jud McCranie · CC BY-SA 4.0Sissonville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
There are 908 jobs in Sissonville; 1,601 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Sissonville is better than 26% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (B+). Only 4% work in Sissonville; the top destination outside it is Charleston (37%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Sissonville, in brief
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Sissonville
Job access by car holds Sissonville’s grade up (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (23.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sissonville could be anywhere from D to B.
Where people from Sissonville work
Where Sissonville clocks in
37% of workers
8% of workers
2% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Sissonville
On a workday 1,542 residents head out to work, 59 work right here, and 849 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Sissonville 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.
Jobs in Sissonville: what the 908 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sissonville, 2013 → 2023: 1,003 → 908. 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 Sissonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Sissonville: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sissonville workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,306 commuters (the 5% 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.
Sissonville’s commute, mile by mile
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 Sissonville is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across West Virginia, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,373 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). 3.8% of Sissonville households have no vehicle (West Virginia 8.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sissonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sissonville ranks: 3,350th of 4,474 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 742 | Pinch WV | 4,037 | $77K | 5.1% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,055 | Williamstown WV | 2,922 | $89K | 5.2% | 1.9% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,455 | Bethlehem WV | 2,520 | $83K | 8.8% | 3.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,348 | Fabens TX | 4,818 | $43K | 28.3% | 3.7% | 8% | C |
| 3,349 | Matoaca VA | 2,724 | $70K | 22.0% | 9.0% | <1% | C |
| 3,350 | Sissonville WV | 3,593 | $67K | 23.4% | 5.3% | 4% | C |
| 3,351 | Bethany MO | 2,956 | $48K | 17.1% | 0.8% | 34% | C |
| 3,352 | Cisco TX | 3,980 | $59K | 6.3% | 5.9% | 24% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,474 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Sissonville, 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 Sissonville: questions
What is the median household income in Sissonville?
$66,944 (±$15,422) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sissonville?
23.4%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sissonville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across West Virginia and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sissonville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charleston (37%, 10 mi), South Charleston (8%, 12 mi), St. Albans (2%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sissonville walkable?
Sissonville is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sissonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sissonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sissonville
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.