Photo: Ceh2624 · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Mocksville has 2.3 jobs per working resident, and 5,605 people come in to work
6,075 jobs are based in Mocksville; 2,598 of its residents have a job. Mocksville grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Mocksville stands out on work
Mocksville draws workers from far and wide
The 6,075 jobs in Mocksville are filled from a wide area. Mocksville’s own residents hold 8% and the ten next-biggest home towns 16%; the other 76% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Mocksville is where the jobs are
Mocksville has 6,075 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 9,800 people are in town, 55% more than the 6,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Mocksville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mocksville is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #196 of 290 in North Carolina. Job access by car holds Mocksville’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mocksville could be anywhere from D to B.
Where Mocksville’s workforce comes from
Where Mocksville clocks in
6% 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.
Mocksville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,128 residents head out to work and 470 work right here.
About 9,800 people are in Mocksville 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.
Mocksville makes things: 29% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mocksville, 2013 → 2023: 5,184 → 6,075. 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 Mocksville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Mocksville takes about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mocksville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,570 commuters (the 7% 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.
Where in the region Mocksville works
About 16% 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.
Most trips from Mocksville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mocksville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #178 of 290 in North Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.9% across North Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,766 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 Mocksville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mocksville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mocksville next to U.S. towns of 4,400 to 8,500: 2,545th of 3,349 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Oak Ridge NC | 7,896 | $155K | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 286 | Midland NC | 5,151 | $101K | 4.1% | 1.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 345 | Ogden NC | 8,249 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,543 | Okeechobee FL | 5,811 | $57K | 15.8% | 3.1% | 26% | C |
| 2,544 | Port Clinton OH | 5,875 | $61K | 17.5% | 4.4% | 23% | C |
| 2,545 | Mocksville NC | 6,282 | $55K | 19.2% | 4.2% | 18% | C |
| 2,546 | Center Township IN | 6,114 | $57K | 20.0% | 2.7% | 21% | C |
| 2,547 | Bridgton ME | 5,965 | $78K | 12.8% | 5.1% | 24% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,349 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Mocksville, 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 Mocksville: questions
What is the median household income in Mocksville?
$55,367 (±$5,504) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mocksville?
19.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mocksville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mocksville work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winston-Salem (16%, 22 mi), Charlotte (6%, 50 mi), Greensboro (5%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mocksville walkable?
Mocksville is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mocksville 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 Mocksville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mocksville
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.