Work & commute · St. Albans

Work & commute in St. Albans, WV

Most working residents leave St. Albans for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Charleston (31%), South Charleston (10%) and Teays Valley (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

376 of 4,836 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 4,460 St. Albans residents head out of town to work, 376 work right here, and 2,987 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Albans.

4,460live here, work elsewhere

376live and work here

2,987work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Albans goes to work

Charleston10.3 mi away

31%1,503

South Charleston6.4 mi away

10%507

St. Albans (in town)right here

8%376

Teays Valley7.5 mi away

3%155

Huntington33.4 mi away

2%107

Dunbar4.5 mi away

2%106

Nitro2.4 mi away

2%105

Cross Lanes4.9 mi away

2%80

Beckley55 mi away

1%66

Hurricane11.3 mi away

1%45

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%1,786

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

How far

How far St. Albans commutes

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

49%

32%

11%

49%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Albans is a commuter town

0.70jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Albans are

3,363 jobs are based in St. Albans. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Albans’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Albans

3,363 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs St. Albans residents hold

4,836 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−10%

Jobs based in St. Albans, 2013 → 2023: 3,720 → 3,363. 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.