Old Hundred has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Old Hundred; the top destination outside it is Laurinburg (17%, 8 miles). Old Hundred has 8 jobs, against 87 working residents. 0% of workers have no commute at all, 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
How a workday changes Old Hundred
On a workday 87 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 52 people are in Old Hundred on a workday afternoon, 60% 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.
Where people from Old Hundred work
Where Old Hundred clocks in
17% of workers
5% 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.
What Old Hundred’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Old Hundred, 2013 → 2023: 7 → 8. 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 Old Hundred’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Old Hundred
of Old Hundred workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 29 commuters (the 0% 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.
Miles to work from Old Hundred
About 24% 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.
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 Old Hundred: questions
What is the poverty rate in Old Hundred?
48.9%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Old Hundred work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Laurinburg (17%, 8 mi), Bennettsville (5%, 15 mi), Lumber Bridge (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Old Hundred without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 34% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Old Hundred, from the people who make the trip.
More of Old Hundred
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.