Work & commute · Shawsville

Work & commute in Shawsville, VA

Most working residents leave Shawsville for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Christiansburg (18%), Salem (9%) and Roanoke (9%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 474 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 463 Shawsville residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 106 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Shawsville.

463live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

106work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Shawsville goes to work

Christiansburg8.2 mi away

18%84

Salem13.7 mi away

9%44

Roanoke18.2 mi away

9%42

Blacksburg9.9 mi away

9%41

Lafayette5.1 mi away

7%33

Cave Spring14.4 mi away

3%14

Radford16.8 mi away

3%12

Shawsville (in town)right here

2%11

Elliston4.2 mi away

2%10

Lynchburg60.6 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%176

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

How far

How far Shawsville commutes

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

35%

41%

16%

35%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Shawsville is a commuter town

0.25jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Shawsville are

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

Jobs based in Shawsville

117 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)38%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Shawsville residents hold

474 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−14%

Jobs based in Shawsville, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 117. 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.