Fletcher Covered Bridge · Photo: Bill Eichelberger · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Wolf Summit works elsewhere
0% of workers have no commute at all, against 9% across West Virginia. 4 jobs are based in Wolf Summit, against 74 working residents. Hardly any stay in Wolf Summit for work; outside it, Bridgeport is the main destination (20%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Wolf Summit
On a workday 74 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Wolf Summit on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 Wolf Summit commutes to
Where Wolf Summit clocks in
20% of workers
19% 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 Wolf Summit: what the 4 are
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 Wolf Summit’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Wolf Summit
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wolf Summit workers work from home, vs 9% across West Virginia. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 101 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.
Miles to work from Wolf Summit
About 18% 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 Wolf Summit: questions
What is the median household income in Wolf Summit?
$33,750 (±$11,094) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $59,608 across West Virginia and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wolf Summit?
7.0%, against 16.7% across West Virginia and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wolf Summit?
26 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 Wolf Summit work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bridgeport (20%, 12 mi), Clarksburg (19%, 5 mi), Nutter Fort (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wolf Summit 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 Wolf Summit, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wolf Summit
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.