Work & commute · Harts

Work & commute in Harts, WV

Most working residents leave Harts for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Huntington (9%), Charleston (9%) and Hamlin (5%). Half commute less than 28 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 168 working residents

Typical commute

28 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

40 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 163 Harts residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 141 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Harts.

163live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

141work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Harts goes to work

Huntington30.1 mi away

9%15

Charleston34.1 mi away

9%15

Hamlin16 mi away

5%8

Logan15.5 mi away

4%7

South Charleston30.5 mi away

3%5

Harts (in town)right here

3%5

Beckley56 mi away

2%4

Madison17.8 mi away

2%3

Parkersburg89.7 mi away

2%3

Mount Gay-Shamrock14.7 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%100

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

How far

How far Harts commutes

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

13%

30%

40%

17%

13%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

40%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Harts 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 Harts are

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

Jobs based in Harts

146 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Harts residents hold

168 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month52%

−22%

Jobs based in Harts, 2013 → 2023: 187 → 146. 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.