Work & commute · Crab Orchard

Work & commute in Crab Orchard, WV

Most working residents leave Crab Orchard for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Beckley (29%), Charleston (3%) and Sophia (3%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 875 working residents

Typical commute

6 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 850 Crab Orchard residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 362 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Crab Orchard.

850live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

362work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Crab Orchard goes to work

Beckley4.4 mi away

29%250

Charleston47.3 mi away

3%30

Crab Orchard (in town)right here

3%25

Sophia2.6 mi away

3%22

South Charleston49 mi away

2%15

Prosperity7 mi away

1%13

Oak Hill16.5 mi away

1%9

MacArthur1.6 mi away

1%9

Pineville19.7 mi away

1%8

Beaver4.1 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%486

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

How far

How far Crab Orchard commutes

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

58%

10%

15%

16%

58%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Crab Orchard is a commuter town

0.44jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Crab Orchard are

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

Jobs based in Crab Orchard

387 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities48%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Crab Orchard residents hold

875 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+33%

Jobs based in Crab Orchard, 2013 → 2023: 290 → 387. 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.