Photo: NS777 · CC BY 4.0Households in Boonville have lower incomes than those in 61% of U.S. towns
16.0% of residents are in poverty (North Carolina 13.0%). Jobs and income earn Boonville C−; getting around on foot earns it B. Only 3% work in Boonville itself; outside it, Winston-Salem draws the most (17%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Boonville and work: the main findings
Boonville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Boonville is Winston-Salem, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (88) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
58% of the jobs in Boonville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 23% of the jobs its residents hold. 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; with 517 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Boonville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Boonville is better than 16% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Boonville’s grade up ($68,145, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Boonville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Boonville could be anywhere from D− to B−.
The commute from Boonville, 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.
Jobs in Boonville: what the 412 are
412 jobs are based in Boonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boonville, 2013 → 2023: 458 → 412. 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 Boonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Boonville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 500 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 395 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 (0.80 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 people from Boonville work
Where Boonville clocks in
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.
Boonville’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boonville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 552 commuters (the 11% 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 Boonville gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boonville is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 621 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). 7.8% of Boonville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Boonville ranks 3,157th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 3,155 | Tyndall SD | 1,117 | $50K | 8.5% | 3.1% | 20% | C− |
| 3,156 | Millington MI | 1,003 | $56K | 18.9% | 5.1% | 4% | C− |
| 3,157 | Boonville NC | 1,203 | $68K | 16.0% | 3.8% | 3% | C− |
| 3,158 | White River Township IN | 1,476 | $63K | 20.8% | 2.0% | 3% | C− |
| 3,159 | Woodstock ME | 1,423 | $63K | 11.5% | 3.2% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Boonville, 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 Boonville: questions
What is the median household income in Boonville?
$68,145 (±$18,010) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boonville?
16.0%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boonville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boonville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winston-Salem (17%, 27 mi), Yadkinville (10%, 8 mi), Charlotte (6%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boonville walkable?
Boonville is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boonville
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.