Work & commute · Mount Hermon

Work & commute in Mount Hermon, VA

Most working residents leave Mount Hermon for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Danville (42%), Chatham (8%) and Lynchburg (2%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41 of 1,693 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,652 Mount Hermon residents head out of town to work, 41 work right here, and 407 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Hermon.

1,652live here, work elsewhere

41live and work here

407work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Hermon goes to work

Danville6.1 mi away

42%717

Chatham10 mi away

8%140

Lynchburg52 mi away

2%42

Mount Hermon (in town)right here

2%41

Martinsville24.5 mi away

2%36

Greensboro, NC45.5 mi away

1%20

Roanoke51.5 mi away

1%19

South Boston28.3 mi away

1%11

Salem55.1 mi away

1%9

Richmond122.7 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%649

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

How far

How far Mount Hermon commutes

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

57%

13%

10%

20%

57%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Hermon is a commuter town

0.26jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Hermon are

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

Jobs based in Mount Hermon

448 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month50%

Over $3,333 a month27%

Jobs Mount Hermon residents hold

1,693 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−17%

Jobs based in Mount Hermon, 2013 → 2023: 540 → 448. 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.