Work & commute · Hot Springs

Work & commute in Hot Springs, VA

About one in 3 of Hot Springs’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Warm Springs (8%), Covington (5%) and Charlottesville (2%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34%

77 of 225 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

11 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 148 Hot Springs residents head out of town to work, 77 work right here, and 759 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hot Springs.

148live here, work elsewhere

77live and work here

759work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hot Springs goes to work

Hot Springs (in town)right here

34%77

Warm Springs3.9 mi away

8%18

Covington17.6 mi away

5%12

Charlottesville72.9 mi away

2%4

Vinton50.3 mi away

1%3

Lynchburg54 mi away

1%3

Richmond132.3 mi away

1%3

Cave Spring54.5 mi away

1%3

Broadway69.5 mi away

1%2

Christiansburg67.4 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%98

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

How far

How far Hot Springs commutes

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

50%

10%

32%

50%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hot Springs is a job hub

3.72jobs per working resident

A job hub

3.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Hot Springs are

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

Jobs based in Hot Springs

836 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)95%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Hot Springs residents hold

225 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month42%

−22%

Jobs based in Hot Springs, 2013 → 2023: 1,067 → 836. 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.