Bayboro has lower household incomes than 98% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Bayboro D; getting around on foot earns it C+. Below the poverty line: 12.2% of residents (North Carolina 13.0%). Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, where North Carolina as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bayboro at work: what stands out
Bayboro is where the jobs are
Bayboro has 664 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Bayboro are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 25 across North Carolina. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical North Carolina worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. 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; with 371 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Bayboro’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Bayboro is better than 8% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bayboro’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($33,636, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Bayboro’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, Bayboro could be anywhere from D− to C.
The daily flow of workers through Bayboro
On a workday 346 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 639 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Bayboro on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Each way, about 15 minutes from Bayboro
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bayboro workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 262 commuters (the 3% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Bayboro
About 33% 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.
The daily trip into Bayboro
Where Bayboro clocks in
16% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Bayboro
664 jobs are based in Bayboro.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bayboro, 2013 → 2023: 659 → 664. 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 Bayboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Bayboro, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bayboro is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bayboro 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 269 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). 15.3% of Bayboro households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bayboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bayboro next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 4,183rd of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 4,181 | Sibley LA | 1,068 | $42K | 24.2% | 2.4% | 2% | D |
| 4,182 | Shannon MS | 1,496 | $42K | 24.1% | 8.9% | 4% | D |
| 4,183 | Bayboro NC | 1,242 | $34K | 12.2% | 1.4% | 7% | D |
| 4,184 | Russells Point OH | 1,323 | $42K | 26.2% | 5.3% | 6% | D |
| 4,185 | Lockney TX | 1,340 | $55K | 17.7% | 8.6% | 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 Bayboro, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Bayboro and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Alliance (8%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bayboro workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayboro | – | D | C+ | 15 min | $33,636 |
| Alliance | 8% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Alliance: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bayboro’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 Bayboro: questions
What is the median household income in Bayboro?
$33,636 (±$11,261) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bayboro?
12.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bayboro?
15 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bayboro work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Bern (16%, 18 mi), Alliance (8%, 2 mi), Grantsboro (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bayboro walkable?
Bayboro is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bayboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bayboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bayboro
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.