Work & commute · Villa Heights

Work & commute in Villa Heights, VA

Most working residents leave Villa Heights for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Martinsville (14%), Collinsville (9%) and Rocky Mount (5%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 244 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 237 Villa Heights residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 1,020 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Villa Heights.

237live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

1,020work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Villa Heights goes to work

Martinsville2.1 mi away

14%33

Collinsville1.6 mi away

9%23

Rocky Mount20.9 mi away

5%13

Danville28.2 mi away

4%10

Roanoke40 mi away

3%7

Villa Heights (in town)right here

3%7

Bassett6.5 mi away

2%4

Hollins44.5 mi away

2%4

Eden, NC16.2 mi away

1%3

Charlotte, NC115.7 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%137

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

How far

How far Villa Heights commutes

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

56%

10%

18%

16%

56%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Villa Heights is a job hub

4.21jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Villa Heights are

1,027 jobs are based in Villa Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Villa Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Villa Heights

1,027 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities53%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month47%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Villa Heights residents hold

244 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month46%

+3%

Jobs based in Villa Heights, 2013 → 2023: 999 → 1,027. 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.