Damascus Baptist Church Arbor · Photo: Gelcourt2018 · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Love Valley works elsewhere
Hardly any work in Love Valley; the top destination outside it is Statesville (24%, 16 miles). Love Valley has 15 jobs, and 62 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Love Valley: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 62 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Love Valley on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The places Love Valley commutes to
Where Love Valley clocks in
24% of workers
16% 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.
Goods jobs make up 87% of work in Love Valley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Love Valley, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 15. 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 Love Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Love Valley spends getting to work: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Love Valley workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 63 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Love Valley
About 37% 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 Love Valley: questions
What is the poverty rate in Love Valley?
40.9%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Love Valley?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Love Valley work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Statesville (24%, 16 mi), Charlotte (16%, 55 mi), Taylorsville (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Love Valley 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 Love Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Love Valley
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.