Gen. Thomas Boykin House · Photo: MatthisFour · CC BY-SA 3.0Bonnetsville has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
10 jobs are based in Bonnetsville, and 123 of its residents work somewhere. Getting around Bonnetsville on foot earns D−. 0% of workers have no commute at all, 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
Bonnetsville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 123 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Bonnetsville on a workday afternoon, 11% 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.
15% of working residents work in Clinton
Where Bonnetsville clocks in
15% of workers
7% of workers
3% 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.
70% of the jobs in Bonnetsville pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bonnetsville, 2013 → 2023: 17 → 10. 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 Bonnetsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 18 minutes each way, quicker than most of North Carolina
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bonnetsville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 282 commuters (the 0% 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.
Bonnetsville’s commute, mile by mile
About 27% 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.
Most of Bonnetsville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bonnetsville is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bonnetsville 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 282 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). 5.9% of Bonnetsville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bonnetsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Bonnetsville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bonnetsville?
62.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bonnetsville?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bonnetsville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clinton (15%, 4 mi), Fayetteville (7%, 33 mi), Charlotte (3%, 138 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bonnetsville walkable?
Bonnetsville is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bonnetsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bonnetsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bonnetsville
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.