Photo: Idawriter · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Germanton commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
116 jobs are based in Germanton for 362 working residents. Germanton grades B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. For 29% of workers, the job is at home (North Carolina 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Germanton apart on work
38% of Germanton works in Winston-Salem
138 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Winston-Salem, 10 miles away. That’s far more as work in Germanton itself. The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Germanton
29% of Germanton workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. 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 362 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Germanton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Germanton is better than 51% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Germanton’s grade up (7.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($62,108, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (13.1%) is left out: Germanton’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, Germanton could be anywhere from C− to A.
38% of working residents work in Winston-Salem
Where Germanton clocks in
7% of workers
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.
Working from home in Germanton
of Germanton workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 243 commuters (the 29% 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.
Who leaves Germanton for work, and who comes in
On a workday 362 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Germanton on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Germanton makes things: 50% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Germanton, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 116. 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 Germanton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Germanton
About 22% 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.
Getting around Germanton: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Germanton is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.9% 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 341 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). 0.0% of Germanton households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Germanton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Germanton places 1,215th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 235 | Advance NC | 1,408 | $115K | 5.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,213 | Irwin Township PA | 1,228 | $69K | 6.2% | 6.7% | 2% | B− |
| 1,214 | West Bethlehem Township PA | 1,284 | $65K | 4.4% | 1.6% | 6% | B− |
| 1,215 | Germanton NC | 1,087 | $62K | 7.5% | 13.1% | 0% | B− |
| 1,216 | Arp TX | 1,020 | $73K | 9.8% | 10.6% | 1% | B− |
| 1,217 | Cedar Lake WI | 1,106 | $85K | 6.1% | 5.3% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Germanton, 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 Germanton: questions
What is the median household income in Germanton?
$62,108 (±$34,038) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Germanton?
7.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Germanton work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winston-Salem (38%, 10 mi), Greensboro (7%, 26 mi), Charlotte (4%, 79 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Germanton walkable?
Germanton is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Germanton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Germanton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Germanton
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.