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Jobs & commute in Stollings

A job hub: Stollings has 2.4 jobs per working resident, and 238 people come in to work

There are 242 jobs in Stollings for 99 working residents. The average commute takes 11 minutes each way, next to 27 for West Virginia and 26 for the U.S. Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 9% for West Virginia as a whole.

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

Day and night

In and out of Stollings on a workday

On a workday 95 residents head out to work and 4 work right here.

95live here, work elsewhere
4live and work here
238work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night510
Workday650
510live here− 95head out to work+ 240come in to work= 650on a workday

About 650 people are in Stollings on a workday afternoon, 28% more than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
2.44jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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 commute map

Who travels to work in Stollings, and from where

ChapmanvilleLogan: 11 workers live here (5%)Man: 3 workers live here (1%)Madison: 5 workers live here (2%)MorgantownSouth CharlestonHuntington: 4 workers live here (2%)Charleston: 4 workers live here (2%)StollingsMcConnellMonaville: 3 workers live here (1%)Bruno: 4 workers live here (2%)Holden: 5 workers live here (2%)Mallory: 5 workers live here (2%)Mount Gay-ShamrockLoganMadisonHoldenMalloryHuntingtonCharlestonStollings
1
Logan1.8 mi away
5%11
2
Madison17.7 mi away
2%5
3
Holden6.8 mi away
2%5
4
Mallory10.9 mi away
2%5
5
Huntington47.2 mi away
2%4
6
Charleston39.4 mi away
2%4
7
Stollings (in town)right here
2%4
8
Bruno11.2 mi away
2%4
9
Man8 mi away
1%3
10
Monaville2.4 mi away
1%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
80%194
The top trips

Where Stollings clocks in

Lines 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 jobs

Most jobs in Stollings are in services

Jobs based in StollingsJobs Stollings residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms6%15%
Trade, transport & utilities12%19%
Services: health, schools, offices81%66%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less10%25%
$1,251–$3,333 a month38%35%
Over $3,333 a month52%39%

Who does it

29 or younger21%16%
30 to 5456%55%
55 and older23%29%
−2%

Jobs based in Stollings, 2013 → 2023: 248 → 242. 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 Stollings’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Time on the road

The daily trip from Stollings: about 11 minutes

A year of commuting
87 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.6 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Stollings11 min
West Virginia27 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

of Stollings workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
How Stollings gets to work
72%Drive alone
28%Walk

Share of the 121 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

How far it is to work from Stollings

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miLogan: 21% · 1.8 miSouth Charleston: 6% · 37.1 miCharleston: 4% · 39.4 miMount Gay-Shamrock: 4% · 3.6 miMan: 3% · 8 miHuntington: 3% · 47.2 miHolden: 3% · 6.8 miChapmanville: 2% · 9.6 miMorgantown: 2% · 164.8 miLogan 21%South Charleston 6%Charleston 4%Mount Gay-Shamrock 4%Man 3%Stollings
StollingsTop destinations (size = commuters)
50%Under 10 mi49 residents
6%10–24 mi6 residents
28%25–50 mi27 residents
16%Over 50 mi16 residents

About 16% 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.

Next door

21% of Stollings works in a bordering town

Jobs & commute next door

TownStollings workers thereJobs & incomeWalkabilityCommuteHousehold income
Stollings–——11 min$43,491
McConnellunder 3%————
Logan21%D−A19 min$29,832

Same-state neighbors only. McConnell: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.

The biggest share goes to Logan. Darker towns draw more of Stollings’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Stollings: questions

What is the median household income in Stollings?

$43,491 (±$1,851) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.

What is the poverty rate in Stollings?

20.4%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

How long is the commute from Stollings?

11 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 Stollings work?

4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (21%, 2 mi), South Charleston (6%, 37 mi), Charleston (4%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Can you get around Stollings 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 Stollings, from the people who make the trip.

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Beyond the commute

More of Stollings

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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.