Work & commute · St. Marys

Work & commute in St. Marys, WV

Most working residents leave St. Marys for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Parkersburg (11%), Marietta (4%) and Belmont (3%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

121 of 668 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 547 St. Marys residents head out of town to work, 121 work right here, and 1,147 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Marys.

547live here, work elsewhere

121live and work here

1,147work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Marys goes to work

St. Marys (in town)right here

18%121

Parkersburg20.4 mi away

11%75

Marietta, OH13.1 mi away

4%27

Belmont3.4 mi away

3%21

Marietta, OH9.6 mi away

2%14

Vienna18.1 mi away

2%12

Charleston75.8 mi away

2%11

Morgantown69.1 mi away

1%10

Harrisville15.1 mi away

1%9

Warren, OH17.7 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%359

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

How far

How far St. Marys commutes

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

36%

22%

36%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Marys is a job hub

1.90jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Marys are

1,268 jobs are based in St. Marys. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Marys’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Marys

1,268 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs St. Marys residents hold

668 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+1%

Jobs based in St. Marys, 2013 → 2023: 1,258 → 1,268. 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.