Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Work and commuting in Cerro Gordo
0% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across North Carolina. Only 4% work in Cerro Gordo; the top destination outside it is Wilmington (7%, 60 miles). Working residents average 43 minutes each way (North Carolina 25, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Cerro Gordo for work, and who comes in
On a workday 55 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 59 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 (1.07 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Cerro Gordo work
Where Cerro Gordo 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.
Goods, not services: 74% of the jobs in Cerro Gordo
61 jobs are based in Cerro Gordo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cerro Gordo, 2014 → 2024: 31 → 61. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cerro Gordo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cerro Gordo: about 43 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cerro Gordo workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 117 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Cerro Gordo
About 47% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Cerro Gordo: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cerro Gordo?
25.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cerro Gordo?
43 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 Cerro Gordo work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (7%, 60 mi), Lumberton (5%, 22 mi), Whiteville (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Cerro Gordo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cerro Gordo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cerro Gordo
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.