Win-Mock Farm Dairy · Photo: Rufous-crowned Sparrow · CC BY-SA 4.0Hardly anyone in Bermuda Run is out of work
Only 4% work in Bermuda Run itself; outside it, Winston-Salem draws the most (31%, 12 miles). Bermuda Run grades A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. For 34% of workers, the job is at home, 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
Where Bermuda Run stands out on work
Jobs in Bermuda Run have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Bermuda Run went from 821 in 2013 to 2,159 in 2023, +163%. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Bermuda Run
34% of Bermuda Run workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Time on the road ↓
Bermuda Run and Winston-Salem trade workers both ways
Winston-Salem is the top workplace for Bermuda Run residents (31%) and also where the most people who work in Bermuda Run come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Bermuda Run is where the jobs are
Bermuda Run has 2,159 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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.
Where Bermuda Run’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bermuda Run is better than 84% of U.S. towns, #36 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Bermuda Run’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($69,301, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bermuda Run could be anywhere from B to A+.
Most jobs in Bermuda Run are in services
2,159 jobs are based in Bermuda Run.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bermuda Run, 2013 → 2023: 821 → 2,159. 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 Bermuda Run’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Bermuda Run
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bermuda Run workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 746 commuters (the 34% 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.
Where the people who work in Bermuda Run live
Where Bermuda Run clocks in
6% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Bermuda Run
On a workday 1,253 residents head out to work, 58 work right here, and 2,101 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in Bermuda Run on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.6 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Bermuda Run
About 21% 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 commute in Bermuda Run is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bermuda Run is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns, #186 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 1,132 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). 18.9% of Bermuda Run households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bermuda Run’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Bermuda Run is 650th among 4,593 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 85 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 179 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 648 | Rising Sun-Lebanon DE | 4,163 | $114K | 8.0% | 0.9% | 2% | A− |
| 649 | Germany Township PA | 2,913 | $103K | 2.8% | 2.4% | 5% | A− |
| 650 | Bermuda Run NC | 3,323 | $69K | 4.6% | 0.0% | 4% | A− |
| 651 | Doylestown OH | 3,085 | $79K | 3.1% | 3.3% | 8% | A− |
| 652 | Castroville TX | 3,444 | $78K | 5.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Bermuda Run, 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 Bermuda Run: questions
What is the median household income in Bermuda Run?
$69,301 (±$34,843) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bermuda Run?
4.6%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bermuda Run?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 34% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bermuda Run work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winston-Salem (31%, 12 mi), Charlotte (6%, 59 mi), Greensboro (5%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bermuda Run walkable?
Bermuda Run is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bermuda Run without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bermuda Run, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bermuda Run
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.