Hauser Farm · Photo: Wilson59604 · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of East Bend works elsewhere
Hardly any work in East Bend itself; outside it, Winston-Salem draws the most (30%, 16 miles). 111 jobs are based in East Bend, against 269 working residents. For 8% of workers, the job is at home; North Carolina has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in East Bend
East Bend and Winston-Salem trade workers both ways
Winston-Salem is the top workplace for East Bend residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in East Bend come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
East Bend workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 25 across North Carolina. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical 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 269 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places East Bend commutes to
Where East Bend clocks in
6% of workers
6% 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.
Each way, about 31 minutes from East Bend
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East Bend workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 275 commuters (the 8% 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 East Bend
On a workday 267 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 109 people come in from elsewhere.
About 490 people are in East Bend 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.
The kinds of work in East Bend
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Bend, 2013 → 2023: 116 → 111. 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 East Bend’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from East Bend
About 24% 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 East Bend: questions
What is the median household income in East Bend?
$59,219 (±$13,925) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in East Bend?
22.0%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East Bend?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in East Bend work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winston-Salem (30%, 16 mi), Charlotte (6%, 72 mi), Greensboro (6%, 39 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around East Bend without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East Bend, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Bend
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.