Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Hildebran has 2.0 jobs for every working resident: 1,449 people commute in to work
There are 1,474 jobs in Hildebran, against 724 working residents. Hildebran grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Hildebran apart on work
Hildebran is where the jobs are
Hildebran has 1,474 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, 44% more than the 1,700 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
42% of the jobs in Hildebran are in trade, transport and utilities, against 25% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Hildebran makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Hildebran are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Hildebran residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. 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; with 724 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Hildebran’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hildebran is better than 33% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Hildebran’s grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hildebran could be anywhere from D to B.
Who leaves Hildebran for work, and who comes in
On a workday 699 residents head out to work and 25 work right here.
About 2,400 people are in Hildebran on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
A place that makes things: 37% of Hildebran’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hildebran, 2013 → 2023: 1,336 → 1,474. 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 Hildebran’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Hildebran
Where Hildebran clocks in
26% of workers
7% 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.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Hildebran
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hildebran workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 976 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.
How far it is to work from Hildebran
About 15% 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 Hildebran, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hildebran is more walkable than 24% 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 1,034 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.0% of Hildebran households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hildebran’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Hildebran comes 3,234th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 305 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,232 | Claycomo MO | 1,362 | $49K | 19.8% | 6.9% | 6% | C |
| 3,233 | Superior NE | 1,821 | $64K | 5.5% | 1.1% | 42% | C |
| 3,234 | Hildebran NC | 1,691 | $56K | 21.1% | 3.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,235 | Payson Township IL | 1,695 | $62K | 8.8% | 2.7% | 4% | C |
| 3,236 | Hartford NY | 2,176 | $65K | 8.4% | 8.0% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Hildebran, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Next door to Hildebran
The biggest share goes to Long View (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Hildebran’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 Hildebran: questions
What is the median household income in Hildebran?
$55,703 (±$9,066) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hildebran?
21.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hildebran?
20 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 Hildebran work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hickory (26%, 6 mi), Morganton (7%, 16 mi), Charlotte (5%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hildebran walkable?
Hildebran is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hildebran without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hildebran, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hildebran
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.