Photo: Julie Crowell · CC BY 1.0Maiden draws 3,687 commuters a day, with 2.1 jobs for every working resident
Maiden has 3,808 jobs, and 1,776 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Maiden B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. 5% of workers work from home; North Carolina has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Maiden stands out on work
Maiden makes and builds things
59% of the jobs based in Maiden are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Maiden residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 33%. The jobs ↓
Maiden is where the jobs are
Maiden has 3,808 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 6,000 people are in town, 52% more than the 3,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
Maiden has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Maiden went from 2,542 in 2013 to 3,808 in 2023, +50%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Maiden: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Maiden is better than 49% of U.S. towns, #133 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Maiden’s grade up (2.6%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Maiden could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Making and building: 59% of jobs based in Maiden
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maiden, 2013 → 2023: 2,542 → 3,808. 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 Maiden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Maiden by day and by night
On a workday 1,655 residents head out to work and 121 work right here.
About 6,000 people are in Maiden on a workday afternoon, 52% 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 daily trip into Maiden
Where Maiden clocks in
13% of workers
9% of workers
7% 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Maiden
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maiden workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,649 commuters (the 5% 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 Maiden
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.
Driving is how Maiden gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Maiden is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #173 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Maiden near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,739 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.8% of Maiden households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Maiden’s commuters take a bus or train.
Maiden places 2,304th of 4,364 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 192 | Fairview NC | 3,805 | $99K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,302 | Lower Grand Lagoon FL | 4,287 | $74K | 15.3% | 2.5% | 9% | B− |
| 2,303 | Luverne MN | 4,984 | $64K | 12.2% | 2.5% | 39% | B− |
| 2,304 | Maiden NC | 3,922 | $76K | 19.7% | 2.6% | 7% | B− |
| 2,305 | Loudonville OH | 2,733 | $56K | 10.4% | 1.4% | 15% | B− |
| 2,306 | Shenandoah TX | 3,833 | $62K | 10.9% | 5.7% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,364 | 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 Maiden, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
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 Maiden: questions
What is the median household income in Maiden?
$75,511 (±$20,001) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maiden?
19.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maiden?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maiden work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hickory (13%, 11 mi), Newton (9%, 5 mi), Charlotte (7%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maiden walkable?
Maiden is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maiden without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maiden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maiden
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.