Marble Head · Photo: Linda Roy Walls · CC BY-SA 4.0Greensboro has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 330 jobs in Greensboro, against 919 working residents. The two grades for Greensboro are C for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Measured by household income, Greensboro is behind 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Greensboro and work: the main findings
Income, poverty and work: Greensboro’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Greensboro is better than 29% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Greensboro’s grade up (3.7%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($53,611, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Greensboro could be anywhere from D to B.
Each way, about 37 minutes from Greensboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greensboro workers work from home, vs 19% across Maryland. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,138 commuters (the 6% 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.
Who works in Greensboro, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 901 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 312 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Greensboro on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
8% of working residents work in Denton
Where Greensboro clocks in
8% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Greensboro: what the 330 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greensboro, 2014 → 2024: 262 → 330. 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 Greensboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Greensboro
About 24% 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.
In Greensboro, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greensboro is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Greensboro near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,216 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.5% of Greensboro households have no vehicle (Maryland 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Greensboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Greensboro is 3,269th among 5,234 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Cabin John MD | 2,179 | $250K | 0.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Colmar Manor MD | 1,590 | $123K | 2.3% | 4.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,267 | Callahan FL | 1,830 | $57K | 14.7% | 1.2% | 4% | C |
| 3,268 | Akron IA | 1,531 | $66K | 9.5% | 1.7% | 18% | C |
| 3,269 | Greensboro MD | 1,962 | $54K | 15.9% | 3.7% | 2% | C |
| 3,270 | Kalkaska MI | 2,258 | $57K | 13.3% | 3.4% | 22% | C |
| 3,271 | Ferndale PA | 1,485 | $57K | 14.9% | 3.0% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Greensboro, the top three, the last and three more from Maryland.
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 Greensboro: questions
What is the median household income in Greensboro?
$53,611 (±$9,923) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,678 across Maryland and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greensboro?
15.9%, against 9.4% across Maryland and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greensboro?
37 minutes each way on average, against 31 across Maryland and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greensboro work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Denton (8%, 7 mi), Easton (8%, 20 mi), Baltimore (4%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Greensboro walkable?
Greensboro is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greensboro without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greensboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greensboro
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.