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Work & commute in Grottoes, VA

Most working residents leave Grottoes for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Harrisonburg (22%), Waynesboro (3%) and Verona (3%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
2%
36 of 1,503 working residents
Typical commute
13 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
24 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
3%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,467 Grottoes residents head out of town to work, 36 work right here, and 345 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Grottoes.

1,467live here, work elsewhere
36live and work here
345work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Grottoes goes to work

DaytonGrottoesBridgewaterElktonHarrisonburgWaynesboroStauntonPort RepublicCrimoraMassanetta SpringsWeyers CaveVeronaMassanuttenFishersvilleHarrisonburgWaynesboroVeronaBridgewaterStauntonMassanuttenDaytonElktonWeyers CaveGrottoes
1
Harrisonburg11.8 mi away
22%332
2
Waynesboro14.6 mi away
3%48
3
Verona11.2 mi away
3%48
4
Bridgewater11.1 mi away
3%42
5
Staunton15 mi away
3%41
6
Grottoes (in town)right here
2%36
7
Massanutten11.1 mi away
2%27
8
Dayton12 mi away
2%26
9
Elkton15 mi away
2%26
10
Weyers Cave4.8 mi away
2%26
Everywhere elseother towns and states
57%851

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

How far

How far Grottoes commutes

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

19%Under 10 mi
53%10–24 mi
5%25–50 mi
22%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Grottoes is a commuter town

0.25jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Grottoes are

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

Jobs based in Grottoes

381 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)9%
Trade, transport & utilities48%
Services (health, schools, offices…)43%
$1,250 a month or less24%
$1,251–$3,333 a month40%
Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Grottoes residents hold

1,503 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)23%
Trade, transport & utilities24%
Services (health, schools, offices…)53%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month59%
+28%

Jobs based in Grottoes, 2013 → 2023: 297 → 381. 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.

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