Work & commute · Horse Pasture

Work & commute in Horse Pasture, VA

Most working residents leave Horse Pasture for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Martinsville (18%), Collinsville (9%) and Danville (5%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 781 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 775 Horse Pasture residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 181 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Horse Pasture.

775live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

181work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Horse Pasture goes to work

Martinsville6 mi away

18%139

Collinsville6.5 mi away

9%72

Danville30.3 mi away

5%41

Rocky Mount26 mi away

3%26

Roanoke44.7 mi away

2%18

Villa Heights5.8 mi away

2%18

Stuart17.6 mi away

2%15

Eden, NC14.7 mi away

2%13

Greensboro, NC37.8 mi away

1%8

Lynchburg67.4 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%424

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

How far

How far Horse Pasture commutes

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

58%

19%

15%

58%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Horse Pasture is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Horse Pasture are

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

Jobs based in Horse Pasture

187 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities43%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Horse Pasture residents hold

781 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month42%

+16%

Jobs based in Horse Pasture, 2013 → 2023: 161 → 187. 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.