Work & commute · Blairs

Work & commute in Blairs, VA

Most working residents leave Blairs for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Danville (39%), Chatham (8%) and Lynchburg (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 348 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 345 Blairs residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 139 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Blairs.

345live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

139work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Blairs goes to work

Danville8.3 mi away

39%136

Chatham7.8 mi away

8%29

Lynchburg49.3 mi away

3%9

Greensboro, NC48.6 mi away

2%7

Roanoke51.2 mi away

2%7

Richmond119.5 mi away

1%4

Riverdale26.9 mi away

1%4

Yanceyville, NC19.9 mi away

1%3

Eden, NC24.2 mi away

1%3

Charlottesville104.6 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%143

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

How far

How far Blairs commutes

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

53%

14%

12%

21%

53%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Blairs is a commuter town

0.41jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Blairs are

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

Jobs based in Blairs

142 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Blairs residents hold

348 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−31%

Jobs based in Blairs, 2013 → 2023: 206 → 142. 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.