Work & commute · Stuarts Draft

Work & commute in Stuarts Draft, VA

Most working residents leave Stuarts Draft for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Waynesboro (10%), Fishersville (8%) and Staunton (8%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

1,100 of 5,947 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 4,847 Stuarts Draft residents head out of town to work, 1,100 work right here, and 6,221 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Stuarts Draft.

4,847live here, work elsewhere

1,100live and work here

6,221work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Stuarts Draft goes to work

Stuarts Draft (in town)right here

18%1,100

Waynesboro8 mi away

10%597

Fishersville6.3 mi away

8%492

Staunton9.7 mi away

8%466

Verona12.3 mi away

6%371

Charlottesville29.9 mi away

3%184

Harrisonburg30.1 mi away

3%165

University of Virginia28 mi away

2%103

Lyndhurst4.3 mi away

2%99

Lynchburg43.7 mi away

1%84

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%2,286

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

How far

How far Stuarts Draft commutes

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

48%

13%

18%

21%

48%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Stuarts Draft is balanced between jobs and homes

1.23jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.23 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Stuarts Draft are

7,321 jobs are based in Stuarts Draft. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Stuarts Draft’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Stuarts Draft

7,321 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)64%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)9%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Stuarts Draft residents hold

5,947 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+39%

Jobs based in Stuarts Draft, 2013 → 2023: 5,280 → 7,321. 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.