Gibsonville School · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainMost of Gibsonville commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
7% of workers work from home; North Carolina has 16%. There are 835 jobs in Gibsonville, against 3,703 working residents. Jobs and income earn Gibsonville A−; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Gibsonville: the figures worth knowing
Gibsonville and Burlington trade workers both ways
Burlington is the top workplace for Gibsonville residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Gibsonville come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Gibsonville is a place people come home to
There are 835 jobs based in Gibsonville, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Gibsonville has about 7,000 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Gibsonville
60% of Gibsonville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 39% of the jobs based in Gibsonville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. 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.
Gibsonville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gibsonville is better than 82% of U.S. towns, #38 of 290 in North Carolina. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Gibsonville’s grade. It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gibsonville could be anywhere from B to A+.
20% of working residents work in Burlington
Where Gibsonville clocks in
20% of workers
19% of workers
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.
Who commutes out of Gibsonville, and who commutes in
On a workday 3,644 residents head out to work, 59 work right here, and 776 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,000 people are in Gibsonville on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
What Gibsonville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gibsonville, 2013 → 2023: 973 → 835. 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 Gibsonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes to work from Gibsonville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gibsonville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,137 commuters (the 7% 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.
Where in the region Gibsonville works
About 21% 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.
In Gibsonville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gibsonville is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns, #210 of 290 in North Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.3% of 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 4,461 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). 3.6% of Gibsonville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gibsonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gibsonville is 713th of 2,761 U.S. towns of 6,900 to 13,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 183 | Oak Ridge NC | 7,896 | $155K | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 283 | Rolesville NC | 12,839 | $150K | 1.1% | 3.7% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 355 | Summerfield NC | 11,327 | $160K | 7.1% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 711 | Miami Shores FL | 11,669 | $144K | 7.6% | 5.4% | 5% | A− |
| 712 | Bloomingdale NJ | 7,853 | $128K | 11.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A− |
| 713 | Gibsonville NC | 9,876 | $96K | 5.8% | 3.3% | 2% | A− |
| 714 | West Deer Township PA | 12,301 | $95K | 8.2% | 2.7% | 8% | A− |
| 715 | Maywood NJ | 10,166 | $118K | 3.9% | 8.1% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,761 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Gibsonville, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
The towns next door employ 25% of Gibsonville
The biggest share goes to Burlington (20%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gibsonville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibsonville | – | A− | C | 27 min | $95,861 |
| Burlington | 20% | C | B− | 24 min | $56,880 |
| Elon | 5% | B+ | A− | 20 min | $84,773 |
| Whitsett | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Whitsett: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gibsonville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Gibsonville: questions
What is the median household income in Gibsonville?
$95,861 (±$8,907) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gibsonville?
5.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gibsonville?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gibsonville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burlington (20%, 4 mi), Greensboro (19%, 16 mi), Durham (5%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gibsonville walkable?
Gibsonville is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gibsonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gibsonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gibsonville
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.