Gov. David S. Reid House · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Reidsville trail those of 94% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 21.1%, next to 13.0% for North Carolina as a whole. Reidsville grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers; North Carolina has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Reidsville, in brief
Reidsville trades workers with the towns around it
Reidsville has about as many jobs (6,180) as working residents (5,779), but they are mostly different people: 4,799 residents leave for work each day while 5,200 people come in. Only 16% of the jobs in Reidsville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Reidsville draws workers from far and wide
The 6,180 jobs in Reidsville are filled from a wide area. Reidsville’s own residents hold 16% and the ten next-biggest home towns 21%; the other 63% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
Inside Reidsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Reidsville is better than 14% of U.S. towns, #251 of 290 in North Carolina. Job access by car holds Reidsville’s grade up (ahead of 55% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($42,921, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Reidsville could be anywhere from D to C.
Who works in Reidsville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 4,799 residents head out to work, 980 work right here, and 5,200 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 (1.07 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.
23% of working residents work in Greensboro
Where Reidsville clocks in
23% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 work there is in Reidsville: 6,180 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Reidsville, 2013 → 2023: 7,676 → 6,180. 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 Reidsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Reidsville: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Reidsville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,017 commuters (the 7% 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 Reidsville
About 23% 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.
Reidsville is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Reidsville is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns, #39 of 290 in North Carolina. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,386 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). 12.2% of Reidsville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Reidsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Reidsville sits among U.S. towns of 10,000 to 20,000
| # | 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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| 49 | Weddington NC | 14,517 | $191K | 4.0% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
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| 226 | Wendell NC | 19,687 | $96K | 3.2% | 1.3% | 4% | A |
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| 267 | Rolesville NC | 12,839 | $150K | 1.1% | 3.7% | 3% | A |
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| 2,182 | Branson MO | 12,921 | $52K | 20.2% | 5.8% | 45% | D |
| 2,183 | Coos Bay OR | 15,686 | $57K | 15.3% | 6.0% | 41% | D |
| 2,184 | Reidsville NC | 14,692 | $43K | 21.1% | 6.4% | 17% | D |
| 2,185 | Bristol VA | 16,418 | $50K | 18.0% | 6.3% | 27% | D |
| 2,186 | Rochester Township IN | 10,001 | $60K | 15.4% | 7.3% | 32% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | 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 Reidsville, 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 Reidsville: questions
What is the median household income in Reidsville?
$42,921 (±$4,623) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Reidsville?
21.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Reidsville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Reidsville work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greensboro (23%, 19 mi), Raleigh (4%, 68 mi), Charlotte (4%, 101 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Reidsville walkable?
Reidsville is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Reidsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Reidsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reidsville
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.