Work & commute · Jonesville

Work & commute in Jonesville, VA

Most working residents leave Jonesville for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Big Stone Gap (6%), Pennington Gap (4%) and Kingsport (4%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

26 of 289 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 263 Jonesville residents head out of town to work, 26 work right here, and 488 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Jonesville.

263live here, work elsewhere

26live and work here

488work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Jonesville goes to work

Jonesville (in town)right here

9%26

Big Stone Gap22.4 mi away

6%16

Pennington Gap6.6 mi away

4%13

Kingsport, TN33.8 mi away

4%12

Wise35.7 mi away

3%8

Dryden11.3 mi away

2%6

Greeneville, TN39.5 mi away

1%3

Abingdon63.4 mi away

1%3

Mechanicsville323.8 mi away

1%3

Middlesborough, KY34 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

68%197

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

How far

How far Jonesville commutes

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

41%

18%

22%

41%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Jonesville is a job hub

1.78jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Jonesville are

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

Jobs based in Jonesville

514 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Jonesville residents hold

289 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month41%

−62%

Jobs based in Jonesville, 2013 → 2023: 1,369 → 514. 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.