Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Goldsboro works elsewhere
Goldsboro has 21 jobs, and 99 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Goldsboro; the top destination outside it is Denton (10%, 11 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Maryland as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Goldsboro on a workday
On a workday 99 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Goldsboro on a workday afternoon, 36% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Goldsboro: the destinations
Where Goldsboro clocks in
10% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Goldsboro, 2014 → 2024: 17 → 21. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Goldsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 36 minutes each way for Goldsboro’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Goldsboro workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 83 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Maryland: 80% drive alone, 5% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Goldsboro’s commute, mile by mile
About 23% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Goldsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Goldsboro?
$39,643 (±$22,384) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Goldsboro?
31.9%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Goldsboro?
36 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Goldsboro work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denton (10%, 11 mi), Cambridge (6%, 37 mi), Baltimore (5%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Goldsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Goldsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Goldsboro
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.