Work & commute · Oak Grove

Work & commute in Oak Grove, VA

Most working residents leave Oak Grove for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Reston (8%), Tysons (6%) and Ashburn (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

62 of 1,557 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

37 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,495 Oak Grove residents head out of town to work, 62 work right here, and 7,037 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Grove.

1,495live here, work elsewhere

62live and work here

7,037work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Grove goes to work

Reston4.1 mi away

8%117

Tysons11 mi away

6%101

Ashburn4.1 mi away

5%73

Arlington18.4 mi away

5%72

Washington, DC22.1 mi away

5%71

Oak Grove (in town)right here

4%62

Chantilly6.7 mi away

4%61

Herndon1.8 mi away

3%43

Sterling1.6 mi away

3%41

McNair2.2 mi away

3%39

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%877

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

How far

How far Oak Grove commutes

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

50%

37%

50%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Grove is a job hub

4.56jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Grove are

7,099 jobs are based in Oak Grove. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oak Grove

7,099 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)32%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month74%

Jobs Oak Grove residents hold

1,557 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+38%

Jobs based in Oak Grove, 2013 → 2023: 5,161 → 7,099. 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.