Work & commute · Daniels

Work & commute in Daniels, WV

Most working residents leave Daniels for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Beckley (30%), Charleston (5%) and Beaver (4%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 603 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 586 Daniels residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 510 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Daniels.

586live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

510work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Daniels goes to work

Beckley3.9 mi away

30%181

Charleston51.2 mi away

5%28

Beaver1.7 mi away

4%22

Daniels (in town)right here

3%17

Prosperity8.8 mi away

2%11

South Charleston53.2 mi away

2%10

Sophia6.8 mi away

1%8

Shady Spring3.3 mi away

1%8

Sprague5.7 mi away

1%7

Princeton24.5 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%305

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

How far

How far Daniels commutes

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

64%

13%

17%

64%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Daniels is balanced between jobs and homes

0.87jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Daniels are

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

Jobs based in Daniels

527 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Daniels residents hold

603 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−13%

Jobs based in Daniels, 2013 → 2023: 607 → 527. 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.