Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church and Cemetery · Photo: Rcpate1308 · CC BY-SA 3.0Kelly has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Employers in Kelly report 5 jobs for 157 working residents. Hardly any work in Kelly; the top destination outside it is Elizabethtown (13%, 20 miles). For 0% 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
The workday shuffle in and out of Kelly
On a workday 157 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Kelly on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where people from Kelly work
Where Kelly clocks in
13% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Making and building: 100% of jobs based in Kelly
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kelly, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 5. 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 Kelly’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Kelly
of Kelly workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 197 commuters (the 0% 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.
The commute from Kelly, by distance
About 36% 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.
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 Kelly: questions
What is the median household income in Kelly?
$52,703 (±$3,749) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kelly?
5.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Kelly work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Elizabethtown (13%, 20 mi), Wilmington (6%, 30 mi), Fayetteville (6%, 57 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kelly 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 Kelly, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kelly
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.