Cypress Landing has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
There are 26 jobs in Cypress Landing; 419 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Cypress Landing B; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 2% work in Cypress Landing; the top destination outside it is Greenville (16%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Cypress Landing
Cypress Landing is a place people come home to
There are 26 jobs based in Cypress Landing, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cypress Landing has about 650 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
36% 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 ↓
Commutes from Cypress Landing are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 25 across North Carolina. That’s about 54 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 419 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Cypress Landing
On income, poverty and job access, Cypress Landing is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cypress Landing’s grade up (0.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Cypress Landing’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, Cypress Landing could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Who leaves Cypress Landing for work, and who comes in
On a workday 412 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 650 people are in Cypress Landing on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
Where in the region Cypress Landing works
About 36% 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.
About 18 minutes to work from Cypress Landing
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cypress Landing workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 211 commuters (the 12% 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.
Where people from Cypress Landing work
Where Cypress Landing clocks in
16% of workers
3% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Cypress Landing
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cypress Landing, 2013 → 2023: 37 → 26. 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 Cypress Landing’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Cypress Landing commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cypress Landing is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 239 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). 0.0% of Cypress Landing households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cypress Landing’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cypress Landing places 628th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 158 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 263 | Stem NC | 1,023 | $96K | 3.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 302 | Brandywine Bay NC | 1,313 | $105K | 1.2% | 12.1% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 626 | Salisbury VT | 1,262 | $100K | 4.6% | 6.0% | 5% | B |
| 627 | Orange Township OH | 1,276 | $75K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 5% | B |
| 628 | Cypress Landing NC | 1,044 | $84K | 0.5% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 629 | Madison Lake MN | 1,315 | $88K | 6.8% | 4.4% | 2% | B |
| 630 | Shenandoah Junction WV | 1,141 | $95K | 8.2% | 0.0% | 0% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Cypress Landing, 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 Cypress Landing: questions
What is the median household income in Cypress Landing?
$83,785 (±$17,332) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cypress Landing?
0.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cypress Landing?
18 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cypress Landing work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (16%, 19 mi), Washington (12%, 5 mi), Rocky Mount (3%, 53 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cypress Landing walkable?
Cypress Landing is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cypress Landing without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cypress Landing, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cypress Landing
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.