Landis has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
874 jobs are based in Landis, and 1,628 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Landis are B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 3% work in Landis itself; outside it, Charlotte draws the most (17%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Landis, in a few figures
Landis’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Landis is Charlotte, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (272) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Landis makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Landis are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Landis residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Landis
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Landis is better than 71% of U.S. towns, #70 of 290 in North Carolina. Job access by car holds Landis’ grade up (ahead of 75% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($75,000, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Landis could be anywhere from C− to A+.
Landis’ commute, mile by mile
About 16% 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 Landis, 37% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Landis, 2013 → 2023: 1,018 → 874. 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 Landis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Landis on a workday
On a workday 1,586 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 832 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Landis on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 Landis goes to work
Where Landis clocks in
17% of workers
12% of workers
9% 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.
Commuting from Landis: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Landis workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,529 commuters (the 15% 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.
Most of Landis commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Landis is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns, #195 of 290 in North Carolina. 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 1,796 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 2% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 2% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 57% 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). 6.7% of Landis households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Landis’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Landis is 1,226th of 4,264 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 187 | Fairview NC | 3,805 | $99K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,224 | Feather Sound FL | 3,476 | $88K | 14.7% | 2.8% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,225 | Shackle Island TN | 4,404 | $130K | 6.7% | 7.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,226 | Landis NC | 3,885 | $75K | 6.9% | 3.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,227 | Wyoming PA | 3,163 | $72K | 5.4% | 3.3% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,228 | Manor PA | 3,482 | $139K | 4.9% | 11.9% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | 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 Landis, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Work in the towns next to Landis
The biggest share goes to Kannapolis (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Landis workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landis | – | B+ | C | 27 min | $75,000 |
| Kannapolis | 9% | B | B+ | 26 min | $73,836 |
| China Grove | under 2% | C | C | 29 min | $54,083 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Landis’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 Landis: questions
What is the median household income in Landis?
$75,000 (±$33,420) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Landis?
6.9%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Landis?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Landis work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlotte (17%, 27 mi), Concord (12%, 11 mi), Kannapolis (9%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Landis walkable?
Landis is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Landis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 2% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Landis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Landis
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.