Ramseur has lower household incomes than 98% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Ramseur are D for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 47.7% of residents, next to 13.0% for North Carolina as a whole. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers (North Carolina 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Ramseur: the gist
How Ramseur earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ramseur is better than 7% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Ramseur’s grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (6.3%) is left out: Ramseur’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ramseur stays D.
Ramseur’s commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ramseur workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 659 commuters (the 3% 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.
How a workday changes Ramseur
On a workday 678 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 569 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
21% of working residents work in Asheboro
Where Ramseur clocks in
21% of workers
11% of workers
5% 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 the 580 jobs in Ramseur are
580 jobs are based in Ramseur.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ramseur, 2013 → 2023: 618 → 580. 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 Ramseur’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Ramseur’s workers travel
About 21% 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 Ramseur, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ramseur is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% 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 678 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). 4.6% of Ramseur households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Ramseur’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400, Ramseur comes 4,718th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 153 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,716 | Edmonton KY | 1,713 | $51K | 26.5% | 5.3% | 23% | D |
| 4,717 | Coal Run Village KY | 1,565 | $53K | 26.3% | 7.1% | 9% | D |
| 4,718 | Ramseur NC | 1,806 | $36K | 47.7% | 6.3% | 2% | D |
| 4,719 | Tryon NC | 1,634 | $58K | 22.3% | 2.5% | 9% | D |
| 4,720 | Harvey ND | 1,532 | $43K | 12.0% | 1.4% | 51% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ramseur, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
How Ramseur compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ramseur workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramseur | – | D | C− | 25 min | $35,923 |
| Franklinville | under 2% | C− | C | 28 min | $52,805 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ramseur’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 Ramseur: questions
What is the median household income in Ramseur?
$35,923 (±$13,959) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ramseur?
47.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ramseur?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ramseur work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Asheboro (21%, 9 mi), Greensboro (11%, 26 mi), Charlotte (5%, 76 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ramseur walkable?
Ramseur is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ramseur without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ramseur, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ramseur
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.