Washington Mills-Mayodan Plant · Photo: Indy beetle · CC0Households in Mayodan earn less than those in 97% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 22.8%, next to 13.0% for North Carolina as a whole. Jobs and income earn Mayodan C; getting around on foot earns it B−. Home is the office for 2% of workers, where North Carolina as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Mayodan
Jobs in Mayodan have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Mayodan went from 592 in 2013 to 1,374 in 2023, +132%. The jobs ↓
Mayodan makes and builds things
72% of the jobs based in Mayodan are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Mayodan residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Mayodan’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Mayodan is Greensboro, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (200) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Mayodan workers work from home
Only 2% 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Mayodan
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mayodan is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #197 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Mayodan’s grade up (2.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($38,446, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mayodan could be anywhere from D to B−.
Goods, not services: 72% of the jobs in Mayodan
1,374 jobs are based in Mayodan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mayodan, 2013 → 2023: 592 → 1,374. 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 Mayodan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Mayodan works
About 23% 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.
About 29 minutes each way for Mayodan’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mayodan workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,083 commuters (the 2% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Mayodan
On a workday 1,025 residents head out to work, 74 work right here, and 1,300 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Mayodan on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.25 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
18% of working residents work in Greensboro
Where Mayodan clocks in
18% of workers
4% 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.
In Mayodan, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mayodan is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns, #101 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Mayodan 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 1,110 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). 6.7% of Mayodan households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Mayodan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mayodan is 3,322nd of 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 154 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 388 | Swepsonville NC | 2,632 | $101K | 4.1% | 2.2% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,320 | Creswell Township KS | 1,921 | $85K | 17.2% | 0.8% | 6% | C |
| 3,321 | Reidsville GA | 2,576 | $42K | 15.1% | 2.5% | 12% | C |
| 3,322 | Mayodan NC | 2,503 | $38K | 22.8% | 2.2% | 7% | C |
| 3,323 | McCleary WA | 2,053 | $78K | 10.4% | 11.2% | 4% | C |
| 3,324 | De Kalb NY | 2,336 | $57K | 6.4% | 2.3% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Mayodan, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Around Mayodan: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Madison (8%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Mayodan’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 Mayodan: questions
What is the median household income in Mayodan?
$38,446 (±$10,941) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mayodan?
22.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mayodan?
29 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mayodan work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greensboro (18%, 24 mi), Madison (8%, 2 mi), Charlotte (4%, 97 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mayodan walkable?
Mayodan is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mayodan without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mayodan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mayodan
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.