Narrows Dam and Power Plant Complex · Photo: Wasrts · CC BY-SA 4.0Badin has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Badin has 94 jobs; 710 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Badin are D for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Badin
Badin is a place people come home to
There are 94 jobs based in Badin, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Badin has about 1,300 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Badin and Albemarle trade workers both ways
Albemarle is the top workplace for Badin residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Badin come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 710 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Badin gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Badin is better than 7% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Badin’s grade.
Unemployment (7.4%) is left out: Badin’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, Badin could be anywhere from D− to C+.
In and out of Badin on a workday
On a workday 708 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 92 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Badin on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
22% of working residents work in Albemarle
Where Badin clocks in
22% of workers
14% of workers
5% 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.
In Badin, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Badin, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 94. 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 Badin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way, about the NC average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Badin workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 529 commuters (the 10% 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 commute from Badin, by distance
About 20% 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 Badin start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Badin is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Badin 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 591 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). 1.6% of Badin households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Badin’s commuters take a bus or train.
Badin places 5,246th of 5,921 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,244 | Delhi LA | 2,519 | $52K | 25.1% | 8.2% | 33% | D |
| 5,245 | Roundup MT | 2,075 | $58K | 16.6% | 10.7% | 42% | D |
| 5,246 | Badin NC | 1,915 | $53K | 19.6% | 7.4% | <1% | D |
| 5,247 | Pioneer OH | 1,419 | $45K | 21.8% | 5.1% | 10% | D |
| 5,248 | Sisseton SD | 2,413 | $49K | 18.7% | 6.1% | 51% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Badin, 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 Badin: questions
What is the median household income in Badin?
$53,145 (±$11,007) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Badin?
19.6%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Badin?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Badin work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albemarle (22%, 5 mi), Charlotte (14%, 42 mi), Concord (5%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Badin walkable?
Badin is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Badin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Badin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Badin
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.