Photo: Piperpet · CC BY-SA 4.0Boiling Spring Lakes has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Boiling Spring Lakes grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Employers in Boiling Spring Lakes report 846 jobs for 2,605 working residents. Only 4% work in Boiling Spring Lakes; the top destination outside it is Wilmington (18%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Boiling Spring Lakes
Jobs in Boiling Spring Lakes have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Boiling Spring Lakes went from 417 in 2013 to 846 in 2023, +103%. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Boiling Spring Lakes pay little
26% of the jobs based in Boiling Spring Lakes pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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.
Boiling Spring Lakes’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Boiling Spring Lakes is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #156 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Boiling Spring Lakes’ grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boiling Spring Lakes could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The kinds of work in Boiling Spring Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boiling Spring Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 417 → 846. 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 Boiling Spring Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Boiling Spring Lakes
On a workday 2,504 residents head out to work, 101 work right here, and 745 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,100 people are in Boiling Spring Lakes on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Where the trip to work from Boiling Spring Lakes ends
Where Boiling Spring Lakes clocks in
18% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
Getting to work from Boiling Spring Lakes takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boiling Spring Lakes workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,486 commuters (the 17% 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 Boiling Spring Lakes, by distance
About 24% 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.
Boiling Spring Lakes is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boiling Spring Lakes is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #213 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Boiling Spring Lakes 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 2,983 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Boiling Spring Lakes households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boiling Spring Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Boiling Spring Lakes ranks: 2,123rd of 3,229 U.S. towns of 4,800 to 9,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 190 | Oak Ridge NC | 7,896 | $155K | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 300 | Midland NC | 5,151 | $101K | 4.1% | 1.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 360 | Ogden NC | 8,249 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,121 | Edgemoor DE | 6,349 | $59K | 17.5% | 4.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,122 | Lecanto FL | 7,398 | $56K | 5.8% | 4.3% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,123 | Boiling Spring Lakes NC | 6,875 | $63K | 8.5% | 3.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,124 | Aransas Pass TX | 8,842 | $63K | 14.8% | 3.9% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,125 | Salem Township IL | 8,785 | $65K | 12.2% | 3.2% | 34% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,229 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Boiling Spring Lakes, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
The towns around Boiling Spring Lakes
The biggest share goes to Oak Island (6%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boiling Spring Lakes workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boiling Spring Lakes | – | C+ | C | 23 min | $62,676 |
| Oak Island | 6% | B− | B | 23 min | $85,872 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Boiling Spring Lakes’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 Boiling Spring Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Boiling Spring Lakes?
$62,676 (±$10,445) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boiling Spring Lakes?
8.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boiling Spring Lakes?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boiling Spring Lakes work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (18%, 16 mi), Southport (9%, 9 mi), Oak Island (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boiling Spring Lakes walkable?
Boiling Spring Lakes is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boiling Spring Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boiling Spring Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boiling Spring Lakes
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.