Work & commute · Sistersville

Work & commute in Sistersville, WV

Most working residents leave Sistersville for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are New Martinsville (13%), Middlebourne (4%) and Paden City (3%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 527 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 494 Sistersville residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 201 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sistersville.

494live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

201work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sistersville goes to work

New Martinsville9.4 mi away

13%67

Sistersville (in town)right here

6%33

Middlebourne6.4 mi away

4%23

Paden City4.5 mi away

3%18

Parkersburg35.6 mi away

3%18

Charleston90.3 mi away

3%15

St. Marys15.8 mi away

2%10

Teays Valley91.5 mi away

2%9

Vienna32.7 mi away

1%7

Marietta, OH25.7 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

61%321

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

How far

How far Sistersville commutes

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

35%

16%

22%

27%

35%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sistersville 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 Sistersville are

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

Jobs based in Sistersville

234 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities47%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month24%

Jobs Sistersville residents hold

527 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−75%

Jobs based in Sistersville, 2013 → 2023: 935 → 234. 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.