Navassa has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Home is the office for 6% of workers, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole. There are 342 jobs in Navassa for 626 working residents. Jobs and income earn Navassa B−; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Navassa apart on work
38% of Navassa works in Wilmington
236 working residents, 38%, have their main job in Wilmington, 10 miles away. That’s 19 times as many as work in Navassa itself. The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Navassa are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Navassa’s working residents have a job less than 9 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 27 minutes, longer than the North Carolina average of 25. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 626 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Navassa
On income, poverty and job access, Navassa is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Navassa’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($62,000, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Navassa’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, Navassa could be anywhere from C to B+.
38% of working residents work in Wilmington
Where Navassa clocks in
38% of workers
6% 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.
Navassa works in goods: 39% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Navassa, 2014 → 2024: 230 → 342. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Navassa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Navassa: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Navassa workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 827 commuters (the 6% 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.
Who commutes out of Navassa, and who commutes in
On a workday 611 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 327 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Navassa on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The distance from Navassa 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Navassa walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Navassa is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 881 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 12% 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). 1.2% of Navassa households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Navassa’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,581st of 5,921: where Navassa ranks among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,579 | Odell OR | 2,218 | $97K | 4.5% | 9.7% | 10% | B− |
| 2,580 | Shadeland IN | 1,841 | $83K | 15.0% | 2.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,581 | Navassa NC | 1,889 | $62K | 9.2% | 2.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,582 | Whitehall WI | 1,621 | $62K | 6.3% | 1.1% | 31% | B− |
| 2,583 | New Athens Township IL | 2,396 | $52K | 9.2% | 3.7% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Navassa, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Navassa and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Leland. Darker towns draw more of Navassa’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 2024, 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 Navassa: questions
What is the median household income in Navassa?
$62,000 (±$9,047) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Navassa?
9.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Navassa?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Navassa work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (38%, 10 mi), Leland (6%, 7 mi), Raleigh (3%, 112 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Navassa walkable?
Navassa is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Navassa without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Navassa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Navassa
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.