Williams Grove School · Photo: Gjm1761 · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Angier commutes out: there are 0.6 jobs for every working resident
The two grades for Angier are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Employers in Angier report 1,655 jobs; 2,922 of its residents have a job. Household incomes here are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Angier and work: the main findings
Angier workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 25 across North Carolina. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Angier has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Angier went from 996 in 2013 to 1,655 in 2023, +66%. The jobs ↓
Angier’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Angier is Raleigh, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (623) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Angier earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Angier is better than 32% of U.S. towns, #182 of 290 in North Carolina. Job access by car holds Angier’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($52,214, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Angier could be anywhere from D to B+.
A commute of about 35 minutes in Angier
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Angier workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,158 commuters (the 20% 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.
The kinds of work in Angier
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Angier, 2013 → 2023: 996 → 1,655. 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 Angier’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Angier’s commute, mile by mile
About 15% 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.
How a workday changes Angier
On a workday 2,827 residents head out to work, 95 work right here, and 1,560 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,100 people are in Angier on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
21% of working residents work in Raleigh
Where Angier clocks in
21% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
The commute in Angier is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Angier is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #215 of 290 in North Carolina. 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 2,685 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). 6.5% of Angier households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Angier’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Angier is 2,109th of 2,806 U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 189 | Oak Ridge NC | 7,896 | $155K | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 359 | Summerfield NC | 11,327 | $160K | 7.1% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 365 | Ogden NC | 8,249 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,107 | West Perrine FL | 11,162 | $67K | 18.1% | 9.9% | 1% | C |
| 2,108 | Cleveland TX | 9,936 | $55K | 19.2% | 4.2% | 14% | C |
| 2,109 | Angier NC | 9,410 | $52K | 10.6% | 5.1% | 3% | C |
| 2,110 | Paw Paw Township MI | 6,884 | $61K | 13.7% | 5.4% | 14% | C |
| 2,111 | Scott LA | 9,635 | $56K | 15.2% | 5.9% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,806 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Angier, 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 Angier: questions
What is the median household income in Angier?
$52,214 (±$9,606) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Angier?
10.6%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Angier?
35 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Angier work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Raleigh (21%, 23 mi), Cary (9%, 19 mi), Fuquay-Varina (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Angier walkable?
Angier is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Angier without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Angier, from the people who make the trip.
More of Angier
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.