Lockville Dam, Canal and Powerhouse · Photo: Burnie Batchelor, Photographer · Public domainMost of Moncure commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns. There are 47 jobs in Moncure; 349 of its residents have a job. Moncure grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Moncure in brief
Moncure is a place people come home to
There are 47 jobs based in Moncure, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Moncure has about 740 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Moncure’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Moncure is Raleigh, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (61) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Moncure workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 25 across North Carolina. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 92 more than the state’s typical worker. 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; with 349 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Moncure earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Moncure is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Moncure’s grade up (1.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($54,076, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Moncure’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Moncure could be anywhere from B− to B+.
Who leaves Moncure for work, and who comes in
On a workday 349 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Moncure on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Moncure’s commute, mile by mile
About 17% 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.
The daily trip from Moncure: about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moncure workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 501 commuters (the 4% 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.
17% of working residents work in Raleigh
Where Moncure clocks in
17% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
The kinds of work in Moncure
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moncure, 2013 → 2023: 88 → 47. 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 Moncure’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Moncure: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moncure is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 522 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). 0.0% of Moncure households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moncure’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Moncure ranks 682nd of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 158 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 263 | Stem NC | 1,023 | $96K | 3.0% | 1.1% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 302 | Brandywine Bay NC | 1,313 | $105K | 1.2% | 12.1% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 680 | Illiopolis Township IL | 1,198 | $83K | 6.8% | 4.1% | 1% | B |
| 681 | Veale Township IN | 1,140 | $93K | 5.6% | 2.0% | 1% | B |
| 682 | Moncure NC | 1,039 | $54K | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0% | B |
| 683 | Hustisford WI | 1,076 | $72K | 5.5% | 1.4% | 4% | B |
| 684 | Greenwich Township OH | 1,018 | $78K | 2.7% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Moncure, 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 Moncure: questions
What is the median household income in Moncure?
$54,076 (±$14,000) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moncure?
1.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moncure?
37 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moncure work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Raleigh (17%, 28 mi), Cary (10%, 18 mi), Durham (9%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moncure walkable?
Moncure is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moncure without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moncure, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moncure
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.