Kenansville Historic District · Photo: Christaparker089 · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Kenansville has 6.0 jobs per working resident, and 2,189 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers; North Carolina has 16%. Employers in Kenansville report 2,241 jobs, and 371 of its residents work somewhere. About one in seven work in Kenansville; the top destination outside it is Goldsboro (4%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kenansville and work: the main findings
Kenansville fills up on a workday
Kenansville has 2,241 jobs, 6.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,700 people are in town, 3 times the 810 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Kenansville workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 371 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A workday in Kenansville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 319 residents head out to work and 52 work right here.
About 2,700 people are in Kenansville on a workday afternoon, 230% 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.
The distance from Kenansville to work
About 31% 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.
From Kenansville, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kenansville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 307 commuters (the 3% 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 the people who work in Kenansville live
Where Kenansville clocks in
3% 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.
In Kenansville, 30% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kenansville, 2013 → 2023: 2,486 → 2,241. 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 Kenansville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Kenansville: questions
What is the median household income in Kenansville?
$61,364 (±$17,238) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kenansville?
28.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kenansville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kenansville work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goldsboro (4%, 29 mi), Warsaw (3%, 8 mi), Wilmington (3%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kenansville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kenansville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kenansville
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.