Glencoe Mill Village Historic District · Photo: JoAnn Sieburg-Baker · Public domainMost of Glen Raven commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Glen Raven grades B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. There are 372 jobs in Glen Raven for 1,372 working residents. Only 1% work in Glen Raven itself; outside it, Burlington draws the most (28%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Glen Raven at work: what stands out
Glen Raven makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Glen Raven are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Glen Raven residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
Glen Raven and Burlington trade workers both ways
Burlington is the top workplace for Glen Raven residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Glen Raven come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Glen Raven is a place people come home to
There are 372 jobs based in Glen Raven, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Glen Raven has about 2,500 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 Glen Raven earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Glen Raven is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #116 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Glen Raven’s grade up (1.8%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Glen Raven could be anywhere from C to A−.
Goods, not services: 58% of the jobs in Glen Raven
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glen Raven, 2013 → 2023: 271 → 372. 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 Glen Raven’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Glen Raven’s working residents head each day
Where Glen Raven clocks in
28% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
Glen Raven quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,358 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 358 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Glen Raven 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.
About 24 minutes each way for Glen Raven’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glen Raven workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,504 commuters (the 14% 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.
Miles to work from Glen Raven
About 19% 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.
Few in Glen Raven walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glen Raven is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns, #263 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Glen Raven near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,747 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). 2.2% of Glen Raven households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glen Raven’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Glen Raven is 1,928th among 4,221 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 88 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 192 | Fairview NC | 3,805 | $99K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,926 | Rutland Township IL | 3,581 | $91K | 12.3% | 3.7% | 5% | B− |
| 1,927 | Enfield NH | 4,470 | $95K | 16.6% | 0.0% | 7% | B− |
| 1,928 | Glen Raven NC | 3,506 | $63K | 16.7% | 1.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,929 | Bellville TX | 4,379 | $60K | 9.1% | 0.5% | 14% | B− |
| 1,930 | Haverhill NH | 4,667 | $86K | 11.4% | 0.8% | 27% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,221 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Glen Raven, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
31% of Glen Raven works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Glen Raven workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Raven | – | B− | D | 24 min | $63,173 |
| Burlington | 28% | C | B− | 24 min | $56,880 |
| Elon | 3% | B+ | A− | 20 min | $84,773 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Burlington. Darker towns draw more of Glen Raven’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 Glen Raven: questions
What is the median household income in Glen Raven?
$63,173 (±$10,541) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glen Raven?
16.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glen Raven?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glen Raven work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burlington (28%, 3 mi), Greensboro (9%, 20 mi), Durham (7%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glen Raven walkable?
Glen Raven is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glen Raven without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glen Raven, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glen Raven
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.