With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Broad Creek works elsewhere
7% of workers work from home (North Carolina 16%). There are 385 jobs in Broad Creek; 831 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Broad Creek is better than 24% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Broad Creek: the gist
Broad Creek makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Broad Creek are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Broad Creek residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 12%. 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 831 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Broad Creek earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Broad Creek’s grade up (7.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Broad Creek’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, Broad Creek could be anywhere from D to B−.
Making and building: 43% of jobs based in Broad Creek
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Broad Creek, 2013 → 2023: 150 → 385. 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 Broad Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Broad Creek 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.
Broad Creek by day and by night
On a workday 809 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 363 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Broad Creek on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
22% of working residents work in Morehead City
Where Broad Creek clocks in
22% of workers
5% 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.
About 22 minutes each way for Broad Creek’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Broad Creek workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 823 commuters (the 7% 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.
Most trips from Broad Creek start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 883 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). 4.5% of Broad Creek households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Broad Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Broad Creek places 3,782nd of 5,656 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 159 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,780 | Richfield NY | 2,052 | $60K | 18.2% | 3.7% | 11% | C− |
| 3,781 | Lincoln Township OH | 2,164 | $70K | 18.1% | 8.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,782 | Broad Creek NC | 1,836 | $58K | 7.8% | 2.1% | 3% | C− |
| 3,783 | South Rosemary NC | 2,475 | $47K | 19.8% | 2.2% | 1% | C− |
| 3,784 | Flora IN | 2,106 | $51K | 13.8% | 4.7% | 12% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Broad Creek, 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 Broad Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Broad Creek?
$57,500 (±$7,225) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Broad Creek?
7.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Broad Creek?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Broad Creek work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morehead City (22%, 10 mi), New Bern (5%, 26 mi), Beaufort (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Broad Creek walkable?
Broad Creek is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Broad Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Broad Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Broad Creek
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.