A job hub: Faison has 2.3 jobs per working resident, and 664 people come in to work
At home: 10% of workers have no commute at all (North Carolina 16%). There are 695 jobs in Faison, and 305 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten work in Faison; the top destination outside it is Goldsboro (8%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Faison in brief
Faison is where the jobs are
Faison has 695 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,200 people are in town, 47% more than the 820 who live here. Day and night ↓
Faison makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Faison are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Faison residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 34%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% 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 ↓
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 305 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A workday in Faison: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 274 residents head out to work and 31 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Faison on a workday afternoon, 47% more 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.
42% of the jobs in Faison make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Faison, 2013 → 2023: 624 → 695. 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 Faison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Faison’s workers travel
About 30% 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.
Where Faison’s workforce comes from
Where Faison clocks in
4% 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.
Commuting from Faison: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Faison workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 214 commuters (the 10% 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.
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 Faison: questions
What is the median household income in Faison?
$42,333 (±$8,502) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Faison?
24.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Faison?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Faison work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goldsboro (8%, 20 mi), Mount Olive (8%, 7 mi), Raleigh (4%, 57 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Faison without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Faison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Faison
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.