Work & commute · Pleasant Valley

Work & commute in Pleasant Valley, WV

Most working residents leave Pleasant Valley for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Fairmont (18%), Morgantown (12%) and Bridgeport (8%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

85 of 1,475 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,390 Pleasant Valley residents head out of town to work, 85 work right here, and 1,525 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasant Valley.

1,390live here, work elsewhere

85live and work here

1,525work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasant Valley goes to work

Fairmont1.5 mi away

18%262

Morgantown16.7 mi away

12%180

Bridgeport11.6 mi away

8%120

Pleasant Valley (in town)right here

6%85

Clarksburg16.9 mi away

4%60

White Hall2.9 mi away

3%51

Westover15.1 mi away

2%28

Charleston110.3 mi away

1%22

Granville15.6 mi away

1%15

Mannington11.2 mi away

1%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%639

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

How far

How far Pleasant Valley commutes

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

43%

38%

15%

43%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasant Valley is balanced between jobs and homes

1.09jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasant Valley are

1,610 jobs are based in Pleasant Valley. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pleasant Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pleasant Valley

1,610 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Pleasant Valley residents hold

1,475 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−31%

Jobs based in Pleasant Valley, 2013 → 2023: 2,320 → 1,610. 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.