Work & commute · Hollins

Work & commute in Hollins, VA

Most working residents leave Hollins for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Roanoke (34%), Salem (10%) and Cave Spring (4%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

709 of 6,784 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 6,075 Hollins residents head out of town to work, 709 work right here, and 9,331 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hollins.

6,075live here, work elsewhere

709live and work here

9,331work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hollins goes to work

Roanoke4.5 mi away

34%2,330

Hollins (in town)right here

10%709

Salem7 mi away

10%651

Cave Spring8.7 mi away

4%274

Daleville5.3 mi away

2%111

Lynchburg41.7 mi away

2%108

Richmond136.5 mi away

1%74

Vinton6 mi away

1%72

Christiansburg28.6 mi away

1%70

Blacksburg27.2 mi away

1%69

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%2,316

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

How far

How far Hollins commutes

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

70%

17%

70%Under 10 mi

5%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hollins is balanced between jobs and homes

1.48jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Hollins are

10,040 jobs are based in Hollins. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hollins’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hollins

10,040 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Hollins residents hold

6,784 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+11%

Jobs based in Hollins, 2013 → 2023: 9,066 → 10,040. 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.