Photo: Porsche997SBS · Public domainLinville draws 248 commuters a day, with 2.8 jobs for every working resident
Only 2% stay in Linville for work; outside it, Boone is the main destination (8%, 15 miles). Employers in Linville report 250 jobs, against 89 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 34% of workers, against 16% across North Carolina.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Linville
On a workday 87 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 450 people are in Linville on a workday afternoon, 55% 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.
Where Linville’s workforce comes from
Where Linville clocks in
8% 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.
The kinds of work in Linville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Linville, 2013 → 2023: 114 → 250. 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 Linville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Linville
of Linville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 87 commuters (the 34% 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 Linville, by distance
About 28% 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 Linville: questions
What is the median household income in Linville?
$75,833 (±$60,482) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Linville?
0.0%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Linville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boone (8%, 15 mi), Sugar Mountain (6%, 4 mi), North Wilkesboro (4%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Linville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Linville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Linville
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.