Work & commute · Basye

Work & commute in Basye, VA

Most working residents leave Basye for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Woodstock (11%), Mount Jackson (9%) and Winchester (4%). Half commute less than 28 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

36 of 493 working residents

Typical commute

28 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 457 Basye residents head out of town to work, 36 work right here, and 129 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Basye.

457live here, work elsewhere

36live and work here

129work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Basye goes to work

Woodstock14.3 mi away

11%54

Mount Jackson8 mi away

9%46

Basye (in town)right here

7%36

Winchester40.6 mi away

4%18

Edinburg11.2 mi away

2%10

Strasburg26.3 mi away

2%10

Broadway14 mi away

2%9

Washington, DC94.5 mi away

1%7

Harrisonburg26.4 mi away

1%7

Ashburn71.5 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

59%289

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Basye commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

24%

23%

17%

36%

24%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Basye is a commuter town

0.33jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.33 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Basye are

165 jobs are based in Basye. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Basye’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Basye

165 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month24%

Jobs Basye residents hold

493 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+15%

Jobs based in Basye, 2013 → 2023: 143 → 165. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.