With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Arrowhead Beach works elsewhere
There are 10 jobs in Arrowhead Beach; 259 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Arrowhead Beach D; getting around on foot earns it C. Home is the office for 24% of workers, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Arrowhead Beach
Arrowhead Beach is a place people come home to
There are 10 jobs based in Arrowhead Beach, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Arrowhead Beach and Edenton trade workers both ways
Edenton is the top workplace for Arrowhead Beach residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Arrowhead Beach come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A lot of Arrowhead Beach works from home
25% of Arrowhead Beach 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 259 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Arrowhead Beach
On income, poverty and job access, Arrowhead Beach is better than 5% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Arrowhead Beach’s grade up ($66,667, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (39.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (6.6%) is left out: Arrowhead Beach’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, Arrowhead Beach could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Who commutes out of Arrowhead Beach, and who commutes in
On a workday 258 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 9 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Arrowhead Beach on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
18% of working residents work in Edenton
Where Arrowhead Beach clocks in
18% 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.
About 28 minutes to work from Arrowhead Beach
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arrowhead Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 191 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.
Arrowhead Beach works in goods: 90% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arrowhead Beach, 2013 → 2023: 18 → 10. 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 Arrowhead Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Arrowhead Beach to work
About 29% 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.
Driving is how Arrowhead Beach gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Arrowhead Beach is more walkable than 26% 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 253 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). 1.1% of Arrowhead Beach households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Arrowhead Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,379th of 4,866: where Arrowhead Beach ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 324 | Advance NC | 1,408 | $115K | 5.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,377 | Green Township OH | 1,673 | $42K | 21.3% | 2.3% | 10% | D |
| 4,378 | Arenas Valley NM | 1,247 | $44K | 16.1% | 7.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,379 | Arrowhead Beach NC | 1,242 | $67K | 39.9% | 6.6% | <1% | D |
| 4,380 | Blue Ridge GA | 1,297 | $45K | 20.5% | 0.0% | 23% | D |
| 4,381 | Harper KS | 1,287 | $54K | 19.1% | 0.8% | 18% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Arrowhead Beach, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
How Arrowhead Beach compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Arrowhead Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrowhead Beach | – | D | C | 28 min | $66,667 |
| Chowan Beach | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Chowan Beach: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Arrowhead Beach’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Arrowhead Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Arrowhead Beach?
$66,667 (±$26,405) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arrowhead Beach?
39.9%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arrowhead Beach?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arrowhead Beach work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Edenton (18%, 13 mi), Elizabeth City (8%, 26 mi), Chesapeake (4%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Arrowhead Beach walkable?
Arrowhead Beach is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arrowhead Beach without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arrowhead Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arrowhead Beach
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.