Photo: Upstateherd · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer people are out of work in Cherryville (3.0%) than in 70% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Cherryville itself; outside it, Charlotte draws the most (16%, 33 miles). Cherryville grades B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 6% 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
Getting to work from Cherryville, in brief
Cherryville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Cherryville is Charlotte, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (481) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
40% of the jobs in Cherryville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 24% 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.
The figures behind Cherryville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cherryville is better than 48% of U.S. towns, #135 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Cherryville’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (12.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cherryville could be anywhere from C− to A−.
How many miles Cherryville commutes
About 15% 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.
The 2,408 jobs based in Cherryville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cherryville, 2013 → 2023: 1,998 → 2,408. 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 Cherryville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Cherryville
On a workday 2,678 residents head out to work, 287 work right here, and 2,121 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 (0.81 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.
The towns that employ Cherryville’s residents
Where Cherryville clocks in
16% of workers
15% 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 daily trip from Cherryville: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cherryville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,473 commuters (the 5% 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 of Cherryville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cherryville is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns, #96 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Cherryville 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 2,616 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.7% of Cherryville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Cherryville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cherryville next to U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,800: 1,884th of 3,218 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 171 | Oak Ridge NC | 7,896 | $155K | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 279 | Midland NC | 5,151 | $101K | 4.1% | 1.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 336 | Ogden NC | 8,249 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,882 | St. Johns MI | 7,780 | $69K | 12.5% | 4.1% | 21% | B− |
| 1,883 | Glenwood IL | 8,416 | $77K | 10.6% | 17.0% | 3% | B− |
| 1,884 | Cherryville NC | 6,523 | $71K | 12.4% | 3.0% | 10% | B− |
| 1,885 | Lafayette Township IN | 5,289 | $64K | 12.6% | 3.1% | 4% | B− |
| 1,886 | Oak Grove TN | 4,626 | $72K | 7.1% | 7.4% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,218 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Cherryville, 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 Cherryville: questions
What is the median household income in Cherryville?
$70,625 (±$12,400) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cherryville?
12.4%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cherryville?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cherryville work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlotte (16%, 33 mi), Gastonia (15%, 14 mi), Shelby (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cherryville walkable?
Cherryville is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cherryville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cherryville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cherryville
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.