Photo: Cohee · CC BY 3.0A job hub: Pittsboro has 2.9 jobs per working resident, and 169 people come in to work
A typical one-way commute lasts 32 minutes, next to 26 for Mississippi and 26 for the U.S. Pittsboro has 171 jobs, and 60 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% work in Pittsboro; the top destination outside it is Bruce (10%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Pittsboro by day
On a workday 58 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 270 people are in Pittsboro on a workday afternoon, 72% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Pittsboro’s workforce comes from
Where Pittsboro clocks in
10% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Pittsboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pittsboro, 2013 → 2023: 145 → 171. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pittsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Pittsboro spends getting to work: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pittsboro workers work from home, vs 6% across Mississippi. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 163 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Mississippi: 87% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Half of Pittsboro commutes less than 33 miles
About 30% 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 2023.
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 2023, 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 Pittsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Pittsboro?
$42,216 (±$17,238) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $56,447 across Mississippi and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pittsboro?
1.8%, against 18.9% across Mississippi and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pittsboro?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Mississippi and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pittsboro work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bruce (10%, 4 mi), Houston (7%, 19 mi), Oxford (7%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pittsboro 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 Pittsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pittsboro
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.