Households in Beulaville have lower incomes than those in 97% of U.S. towns
5% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across North Carolina. Below the poverty line: 26.5% of residents (North Carolina 13.0%). Jobs and income earn Beulaville D−; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Beulaville, in brief
Beulaville is where the jobs are
Beulaville has 1,065 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,800 people are in town, 52% more than the 1,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Beulaville has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Beulaville went from 715 in 2013 to 1,065 in 2023, +49%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% 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 455 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Beulaville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Beulaville is better than 3% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Beulaville’s grade up (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($37,188, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Beulaville’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, Beulaville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Beulaville by day and by night
On a workday 407 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 1,017 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Beulaville on a workday afternoon, 52% more than live here.
2.3 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.
What work there is in Beulaville: 1,065 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beulaville, 2013 → 2023: 715 → 1,065. 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 Beulaville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Beulaville goes to work
About 30% 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.
Commuting in to Beulaville: where workers come from
Where Beulaville clocks in
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.
The daily trip from Beulaville: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beulaville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 459 commuters (the 5% 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.
Driving is how Beulaville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beulaville is more walkable than 35% 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 481 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). 15.9% of Beulaville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Beulaville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Beulaville compares with U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 248 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 281 | Advance NC | 1,408 | $115K | 5.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,055 | Grand Ronde OR | 1,549 | $53K | 24.8% | 4.0% | 25% | D− |
| 4,056 | Fosston MN | 1,383 | $53K | 25.6% | 10.0% | 27% | D− |
| 4,057 | Beulaville NC | 1,176 | $37K | 26.5% | 2.9% | 11% | D− |
| 4,058 | Konawa OK | 1,242 | $34K | 24.6% | 3.0% | 10% | D− |
| 4,059 | Okeene OK | 1,047 | $58K | 30.6% | 10.5% | 30% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Beulaville, 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 Beulaville: questions
What is the median household income in Beulaville?
$37,188 (±$8,958) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beulaville?
26.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beulaville?
32 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beulaville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kenansville (10%, 11 mi), Jacksonville (5%, 25 mi), Raleigh (4%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Beulaville walkable?
Beulaville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beulaville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beulaville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beulaville
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.