Cedarock Park Historic District · Photo: The original uploader was 5minutes at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Alamance has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Alamance report 147 jobs; 467 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Alamance are B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 25% of workers (North Carolina 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Alamance at work: what stands out
Alamance and Burlington trade workers both ways
Burlington is the top workplace for Alamance residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Alamance come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A lot of Alamance works from home
25% of Alamance workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 467 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Alamance’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Alamance is better than 72% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Alamance’s grade up ($99,375, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.3%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Alamance’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Alamance could be anywhere from B− to A+.
26% of working residents work in Burlington
Where Alamance clocks in
26% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
How long Alamance spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Alamance workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 435 commuters (the 25% who work from home are left out). Across North Carolina: 85% 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.
How a workday changes Alamance
On a workday 464 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 144 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Alamance 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 2023, primary jobs.
What Alamance’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alamance, 2013 → 2023: 245 → 147. 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 Alamance’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Alamance’s commute, mile by mile
About 17% 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.
Most trips from Alamance start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Alamance is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.9% across North Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 581 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Alamance households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Alamance’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Alamance is 440th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 263 | Stem NC | 1,023 | $96K | 3.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 302 | Brandywine Bay NC | 1,313 | $105K | 1.2% | 12.1% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 438 | Springfield Township IN | 1,192 | $96K | 3.7% | 8.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 439 | Morgan WI | 1,032 | $93K | 5.9% | 0.2% | 2% | B+ |
| 440 | Alamance NC | 1,061 | $99K | 10.3% | 0.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 441 | Webster Township IN | 1,194 | $85K | 3.8% | 11.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 442 | Bengal Township MI | 1,135 | $91K | 3.8% | 7.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Alamance, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
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 Alamance: questions
What is the median household income in Alamance?
$99,375 (±$17,441) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Alamance?
10.3%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Alamance?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Alamance work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burlington (26%, 4 mi), Durham (8%, 33 mi), Greensboro (8%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Alamance walkable?
Alamance is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Alamance without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Alamance, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alamance
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. 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.