Princeville’s household incomes are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
0% of workers work from home (North Carolina 16%). Below the poverty line: 36.2% of residents; North Carolina has 13.0%. For jobs and income Princeville is better than 7% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Princeville, in brief
Princeville and Tarboro trade workers both ways
Tarboro is the top workplace for Princeville residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Princeville come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Princeville is a place people come home to
There are 116 jobs based in Princeville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Princeville has about 970 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Princeville workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 432 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Princeville
Job access by car holds Princeville’s grade up (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (8.7%) is left out: Princeville’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, Princeville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
27% of working residents work in Tarboro
Where Princeville clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
Princeville by day and by night
On a workday 428 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 112 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Princeville on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
0.27 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.
The trip to work from Princeville: 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 Princeville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 564 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.
What work there is in Princeville: 116 jobs
116 jobs are based in Princeville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Princeville, 2013 → 2023: 182 → 116. 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 Princeville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Princeville works
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.
In Princeville, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 564 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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). 11.9% of Princeville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Princeville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Princeville ranks: 4,227th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 285 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 324 | Advance NC | 1,408 | $115K | 5.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,225 | Mountain Road VA | 1,574 | $41K | 14.1% | 0.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,226 | Iota LA | 1,253 | $41K | 32.0% | 4.3% | 3% | D |
| 4,227 | Princeville NC | 1,286 | $46K | 36.2% | 8.7% | 1% | D |
| 4,228 | McConnelsville OH | 1,637 | $50K | 16.6% | 1.9% | 13% | D |
| 4,229 | Clay City Township IL | 1,093 | $63K | 24.7% | 5.4% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Princeville, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
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 Princeville: questions
What is the median household income in Princeville?
$46,406 (±$19,695) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Princeville?
36.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Princeville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Princeville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tarboro (27%, 2 mi), Rocky Mount (13%, 17 mi), Greenville (9%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Princeville walkable?
Princeville is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Princeville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Princeville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Princeville
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.