Photo: Bernardgeorgeh · CC BY-SA 4.0Pinebluff has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income B: better than 64% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability D: more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 57% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 25 minutes each way (North Carolina 25, U.S. 26). Only 1% work in Pinebluff; the top destination outside it is Pinehurst (16%, 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 Pinebluff
What’s behind Pinebluff’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Pinebluff is better than 64% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pinebluff’s grade up (6.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.1%) is left out: Pinebluff’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, Pinebluff could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Pinebluff makes things: 63% of its jobs are in goods
348 jobs are based in Pinebluff. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pinebluff’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinebluff, 2013 → 2023: 300 → 348. 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.
Pinebluff quiets down on a workday
On a workday 654 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 340 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Pinebluff on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.53 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.
16% of working residents work in Pinehurst
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Pinebluff clocks in
16% of workers
15% of workers
12% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 25 minutes each way, about the NC average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pinebluff workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 755 commuters (the 9% 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.
Half of Pinebluff commutes less than 10 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 27% 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.
Most trips from Pinebluff start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pinebluff is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.0% 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 826 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). 1.9% of Pinebluff households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pinebluff’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pinebluff is 1,377th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Pinebluff, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 296 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,375 | Cherry Ridge Township PA | 1,902 | $80K | 6.7% | 2.3% | 2% | B |
| 1,376 | Dover ID | 1,164 | $100K | 4.7% | 1.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,377 | Pinebluff NC | 1,571 | $81K | 6.1% | 7.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,378 | Homer Township MN | 1,310 | $94K | 5.3% | 0.8% | <1% | B |
| 1,379 | Germantown NY | 1,890 | $98K | 6.8% | 4.6% | 13% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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.
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 Pinebluff: questions
What is the median household income in Pinebluff?
$80,833 (±$9,824) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pinebluff?
6.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pinebluff?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pinebluff work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pinehurst (16%, 6 mi), Southern Pines (15%, 7 mi), Aberdeen (12%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pinebluff walkable?
Pinebluff is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pinebluff without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pinebluff, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinebluff
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.