Most of Deep Run commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Deep Run; the top destination outside it is Kinston (19%, 12 miles). Employers in Deep Run report 108 jobs, against 231 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, 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
The commute and the jobs: Deep Run in brief
Deep Run and Kinston trade workers both ways
Kinston is the top workplace for Deep Run residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Deep Run come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Deep Run workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 231 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Deep Run’s working residents head each day
Where Deep Run clocks in
5% 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 21 minutes each way for Deep Run’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deep Run workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 237 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.
How a workday changes Deep Run
On a workday 229 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 106 people come in from elsewhere.
About 540 people are in Deep Run on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
In Deep Run, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Deep Run, 2013 → 2023: 161 → 108. 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 Deep Run’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Deep Run’s workers travel
About 28% 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.
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 Deep Run: questions
What is the median household income in Deep Run?
$54,602 (±$45,674) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deep Run?
11.9%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deep Run?
21 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 Deep Run work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kinston (19%, 12 mi), Goldsboro (7%, 22 mi), Raleigh (5%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Deep Run 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 Deep Run, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deep Run
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.