Palo Alto Plantation · Photo: Tradewinds · CC BY-SA 3.0Piney Green has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Piney Green has 1,300 jobs for 4,356 working residents. For jobs and income Piney Green is better than 32% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (C−). Working residents average 25 minutes each way, about the same as across North Carolina.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Piney Green
Jobs in Piney Green have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Piney Green went from 385 in 2013 to 1,300 in 2023, +238%. The jobs ↓
Piney Green and Jacksonville trade workers both ways
Jacksonville is the top workplace for Piney Green residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Piney Green come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Nearly all the work in Piney Green is services
90% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 6% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Piney Green is a place people come home to
There are 1,300 jobs based in Piney Green, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Piney Green
Household income holds Piney Green’s grade up ($72,177, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.9%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Piney Green could be anywhere from C− to B.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Piney Green
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Piney Green, 2013 → 2023: 385 → 1,300. 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 Piney Green’s own residents hold wherever they work.
34% of working residents work in Jacksonville
Where Piney Green clocks in
4% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Piney Green
On a workday 4,226 residents head out to work, 130 work right here, and 1,170 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Piney Green on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
The commute from Piney Green, by distance
About 33% 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.
Piney Green’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Piney Green workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,610 commuters (the 13% 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.
Few in Piney Green walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,414 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). 2.9% of Piney Green households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Piney Green’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,227 U.S. towns of 10,000 to 19,000, Piney Green comes 1,722nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
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| 46 | Weddington NC | 14,517 | $191K | 4.0% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
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| 250 | Rolesville NC | 12,839 | $150K | 1.1% | 3.7% | 3% | A |
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| 320 | Summerfield NC | 11,327 | $160K | 7.1% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
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| 1,720 | Sterling IL | 14,394 | $57K | 15.3% | 3.8% | 29% | C |
| 1,721 | Hanover Township PA | 11,781 | $61K | 19.0% | 5.1% | 15% | C |
| 1,722 | Piney Green NC | 14,078 | $72K | 10.8% | 5.9% | 3% | C |
| 1,723 | Van Wert OH | 11,200 | $55K | 14.2% | 4.2% | 39% | C |
| 1,724 | Radford VA | 17,243 | $57K | 28.7% | 8.1% | 21% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,227 | 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 Piney Green, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
The towns next door employ 34% of Piney Green
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Piney Green workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piney Green | – | C | C− | 25 min | $72,177 |
| Jacksonville | 34% | C− | A− | 15 min | $57,697 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Jacksonville. Darker towns draw more of Piney Green’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 Piney Green: questions
What is the median household income in Piney Green?
$72,177 (±$7,136) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Piney Green?
10.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Piney Green?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Piney Green work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (34%, 6 mi), Raleigh (4%, 106 mi), Charlotte (3%, 202 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Piney Green walkable?
Piney Green is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Piney Green without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Piney Green, from the people who make the trip.
More of Piney Green
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.