Photo: Edward Orde · CC BY-SA 4.0Wilmington draws about half of Murraysville’s working residents
Working residents average 23 minutes each way (North Carolina 25, U.S. 26). The two grades for Murraysville are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 4% work in Murraysville itself; outside it, Wilmington draws the most (46%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Murraysville
Jobs in Murraysville have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Murraysville went from 979 in 2013 to 4,182 in 2023, +327%. The jobs ↓
Most Murraysville residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Nearly all the work in Murraysville is services
89% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 3% are in factories, building or farms. 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.
How Murraysville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Murraysville is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #93 of 290 in North Carolina. The poverty rate holds Murraysville’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.8%, U.S. 5.2%). 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, Murraysville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Murraysville is a services town
4,182 jobs are based in Murraysville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Murraysville, 2013 → 2023: 979 → 4,182. 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 Murraysville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Murraysville to work
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.
A workday in Murraysville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 7,376 residents head out to work, 305 work right here, and 3,877 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Murraysville on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.54 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Murraysville work
Where Murraysville clocks in
46% of workers
3% 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.
Commuting from Murraysville: about 23 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Murraysville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,241 commuters (the 14% 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 commute in Murraysville is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Murraysville is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #176 of 290 in North Carolina. 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 9,561 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 25% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.6% of Murraysville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Murraysville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Murraysville ranks: 1,152nd of 2,220 U.S. towns of 11,000 to 22,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
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| 47 | Weddington NC | 14,517 | $191K | 4.0% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
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| 160 | Harrisburg NC | 20,742 | $148K | 3.7% | 3.0% | 5% | A+ |
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| 215 | Wendell NC | 19,687 | $96K | 3.2% | 1.3% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,150 | Bull Run VA | 16,859 | $90K | 13.7% | 4.6% | 3% | B |
| 1,151 | Lost Creek Township IN | 11,305 | $67K | 13.2% | 3.2% | 6% | B |
| 1,152 | Murraysville NC | 16,339 | $81K | 4.5% | 5.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,153 | Antioch IL | 15,000 | $109K | 7.9% | 8.2% | 9% | B |
| 1,154 | Wixom MI | 17,313 | $65K | 10.9% | 3.4% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,220 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Murraysville, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
51% of Murraysville works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Murraysville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murraysville | – | B | C+ | 23 min | $81,167 |
| Wilmington | 46% | C+ | A | 19 min | $66,738 |
| Bayshore | under 1% | A | C | 20 min | $94,632 |
| Northchase | 2% | C− | B− | 22 min | $59,375 |
| Kings Grant | 3% | B− | B− | 23 min | $62,232 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Wilmington. Darker towns draw more of Murraysville’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 Murraysville: questions
What is the median household income in Murraysville?
$81,167 (±$12,025) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Murraysville?
4.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Murraysville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Murraysville work?
4% work in town.
Is Murraysville walkable?
Murraysville is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Murraysville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Murraysville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Murraysville
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.