Shook-Welch-Smathers House · Photo: Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States · CC0Clyde has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole. 235 jobs are based in Clyde; 554 of its residents have a job. Clyde grades C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Clyde, in brief
Few Clyde workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Clyde are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 25 across North Carolina. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical North Carolina worker. Time on the road ↓
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 554 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Clyde’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Clyde is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Clyde’s grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($56,406, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Clyde’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Clyde could be anywhere from C− to B.
About 20 minutes each way for Clyde’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clyde workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 660 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who works in Clyde, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 545 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 226 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Clyde 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.
17% of working residents work in Asheville
Where Clyde clocks in
14% 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.
What Clyde’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clyde, 2013 → 2023: 169 → 235. 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 Clyde’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Clyde commutes less than 20 miles
About 16% 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 Clyde commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clyde is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.9% across North Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 690 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). 7.2% of Clyde households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clyde’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Clyde is 2,588th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 233 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,586 | Dunkirk NY | 1,202 | $67K | 8.9% | 4.1% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,587 | Windham NY | 1,701 | $76K | 7.4% | 5.2% | 31% | C+ |
| 2,588 | Clyde NC | 1,355 | $56K | 8.2% | 0.4% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,589 | Mendon Township IL | 1,384 | $76K | 10.8% | 3.1% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,590 | Grafton NH | 1,411 | $82K | 7.7% | 4.7% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Clyde, 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 Clyde: questions
What is the median household income in Clyde?
$56,406 (±$11,850) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clyde?
8.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clyde?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clyde work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Asheville (17%, 20 mi), Waynesville (14%, 6 mi), Canton (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clyde walkable?
Clyde is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clyde without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clyde, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clyde
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.