Sherrill's Inn · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Fairview works elsewhere
6% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. There are 619 jobs in Fairview, against 1,119 working residents. Fairview grades B− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Fairview
43% of Fairview works in Asheville
477 working residents, 43%, have their main job in Asheville, 9.1 miles away. That’s 22 times as many as work in Fairview itself. The commute map ↓
Fairview makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Fairview are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fairview residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 15%. 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.
How Fairview earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Fairview is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Fairview’s grade up ($92,132, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (25.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (5.7%) is left out: Fairview’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fairview could be anywhere from C− to A.
43% of working residents work in Asheville
Where Fairview clocks in
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 40% of the jobs in Fairview
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairview, 2013 → 2023: 636 → 619. 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 Fairview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Fairview quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,099 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 599 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Fairview on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
How long Fairview spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairview workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 823 commuters (the 6% 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.
Half of Fairview commutes less than 10 miles
About 20% 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.
Fairview is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fairview is more walkable than 13% 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 875 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). 7.7% of Fairview households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fairview’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100, Fairview comes 2,472nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 157 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,470 | Providence NY | 2,107 | $93K | 11.1% | 4.6% | 4% | B− |
| 2,471 | Deerfield Township OH | 2,885 | $59K | 18.2% | 2.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,472 | Fairview NC | 2,298 | $92K | 25.2% | 5.7% | 2% | B− |
| 2,473 | Hazen ND | 2,314 | $80K | 10.3% | 2.4% | 32% | B− |
| 2,474 | Sunray TX | 1,739 | $66K | 8.2% | 2.8% | 18% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Fairview, 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 Fairview: questions
What is the median household income in Fairview?
$92,132 (±$27,723) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairview?
25.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairview?
22 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 Fairview work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Asheville (43%, 9 mi), Charlotte (5%, 91 mi), Fletcher (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fairview walkable?
Fairview is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fairview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairview
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.