Work & commute · Prices Fork

Work & commute in Prices Fork, VA

Most working residents leave Prices Fork for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Blacksburg (37%), Christiansburg (13%) and Roanoke (4%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 473 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 465 Prices Fork residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Prices Fork.

465live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

88work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Prices Fork goes to work

Blacksburg3.8 mi away

37%175

Christiansburg6.5 mi away

13%62

Roanoke29.6 mi away

4%18

Radford7.1 mi away

3%15

Salem24.4 mi away

2%10

Pulaski18.4 mi away

2%8

Galax44.2 mi away

2%8

Prices Fork (in town)right here

2%8

Cave Spring26.4 mi away

2%8

Lynchburg72.3 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%154

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

How far

How far Prices Fork commutes

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

64%

15%

13%

64%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Prices Fork is a commuter town

0.20jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Prices Fork are

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

Jobs based in Prices Fork

96 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Prices Fork residents hold

473 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+118%

Jobs based in Prices Fork, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 96. 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.