Work & commute · Mathews

Work & commute in Mathews, VA

Most working residents leave Mathews for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Newport News (16%), Virginia Beach (4%) and Hampton (4%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

29 of 203 working residents

Typical commute

26 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 174 Mathews residents head out of town to work, 29 work right here, and 569 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mathews.

174live here, work elsewhere

29live and work here

569work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mathews goes to work

Newport News27.5 mi away

16%32

Mathews (in town)right here

14%29

Virginia Beach48.8 mi away

4%8

Hampton27.4 mi away

4%8

Gloucester Courthouse11.1 mi away

4%8

Richmond63.2 mi away

3%7

Chesapeake52.8 mi away

3%6

West Point27.1 mi away

1%3

Suffolk54.3 mi away

1%3

Norfolk36.2 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%96

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

How far

How far Mathews commutes

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

27%

21%

31%

21%

27%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mathews is a job hub

2.95jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mathews are

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

Jobs based in Mathews

598 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)76%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Mathews residents hold

203 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+97%

Jobs based in Mathews, 2013 → 2023: 304 → 598. 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.