Most of Mar-Mac commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Mar-Mac grades C for jobs and income and D− for walkability. 126 jobs are based in Mar-Mac, against 1,219 working residents. Measured by household income, Mar-Mac is behind 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Mar-Mac in brief
Mar-Mac is a place people come home to
There are 126 jobs based in Mar-Mac, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mar-Mac has about 1,800 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Mar-Mac workers work from home
Only 1% 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.
Why Mar-Mac gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mar-Mac is better than 26% of U.S. towns, #200 of 290 in North Carolina. The poverty rate holds Mar-Mac’s grade up (11.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($53,819, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mar-Mac could be anywhere from D to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Mar-Mac
On a workday 1,215 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 122 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Mar-Mac on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Mar-Mac
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mar-Mac workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,003 commuters (the 1% 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.
27% of working residents work in Goldsboro
Where Mar-Mac clocks in
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.
Jobs in Mar-Mac: what the 126 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mar-Mac, 2013 → 2023: 287 → 126. 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 Mar-Mac’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Mar-Mac
About 22% 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 Mar-Mac, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mar-Mac is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns, #287 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Mar-Mac 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 1,012 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). 2.0% of Mar-Mac households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mar-Mac’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900, Mar-Mac ranks 3,549th of 4,882 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 118 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 174 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,547 | Green Township MI | 3,408 | $83K | 20.1% | 5.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,548 | Cornville AZ | 3,618 | $73K | 6.7% | 8.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,549 | Mar-Mac NC | 2,877 | $54K | 11.8% | 5.2% | <1% | C |
| 3,550 | Cherryvale KS | 2,093 | $50K | 21.0% | 1.7% | 19% | C |
| 3,551 | Troy NC | 3,020 | $52K | 20.2% | 1.7% | 18% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Mar-Mac, 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 Mar-Mac: questions
What is the median household income in Mar-Mac?
$53,819 (±$13,737) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mar-Mac?
11.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mar-Mac?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mar-Mac work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goldsboro (27%, 6 mi), Raleigh (6%, 48 mi), Mount Olive (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mar-Mac walkable?
Mar-Mac is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mar-Mac without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mar-Mac, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mar-Mac
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.