Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Unemployment in Boiling Springs (6.3%) is higher than in 77% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers; North Carolina has 16%. For jobs and income Boiling Springs is better than 57% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (A−). Only 8% work in Boiling Springs itself; outside it, Shelby draws the most (19%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Boiling Springs in brief
Many jobs in Boiling Springs pay little
34% of the jobs based in Boiling Springs pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 35% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Boiling Springs
57% of Boiling Springs residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 38% of the jobs based in Boiling Springs pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 92% leave town for their job. 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.
What’s behind Boiling Springs’ Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Boiling Springs’ grade up (2.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boiling Springs could be anywhere from C to A.
In Boiling Springs, services account for most jobs
1,463 jobs are based in Boiling Springs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boiling Springs, 2013 → 2023: 1,605 → 1,463. 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 Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 1,649 residents head out to work, 141 work right here, and 1,322 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).
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 Boiling Springs goes to work
Where Boiling Springs clocks in
7% of workers
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 trip to work from Boiling Springs: about 24 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 Springs workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,646 commuters (the 9% 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.
How many miles Boiling Springs commutes
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.
Boiling Springs is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,813 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). 3.0% of Boiling Springs households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boiling Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,500, Boiling Springs ranks 1,738th of 3,753 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 85 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 191 | Fairview NC | 3,805 | $99K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 290 | Midland NC | 5,151 | $101K | 4.1% | 1.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,736 | Bonsall CA | 4,332 | $114K | 16.9% | 4.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,737 | Osage IA | 3,552 | $69K | 6.9% | 1.8% | 48% | B |
| 1,738 | Boiling Springs NC | 4,799 | $90K | 2.2% | 6.3% | 8% | B |
| 1,739 | Swoyersville PA | 5,155 | $72K | 9.7% | 3.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,740 | Fairfield Township OH | 3,653 | $73K | 7.0% | 2.1% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,753 | 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 Boiling Springs, 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 Boiling Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Boiling Springs?
$89,875 (±$22,619) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boiling Springs?
2.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boiling Springs?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boiling Springs work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Shelby (19%, 7 mi), Charlotte (7%, 47 mi), Gastonia (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boiling Springs walkable?
Boiling Springs is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boiling Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boiling Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boiling Springs
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.