Photo: Harrison Keely · CC BY 4.0A job hub: Robbinsville has 3.8 jobs per working resident, and 831 people come in to work
About one in five work in Robbinsville; the top destination outside it is Cherokee (4%, 31 miles). There are 879 jobs in Robbinsville, against 229 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 9% of workers, against 16% across North Carolina.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Robbinsville in brief
Robbinsville fills up on a workday
Robbinsville has 879 jobs, 3.8 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,200 people are in town, more than double the 580 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Robbinsville are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 25 across North Carolina. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical North Carolina worker. 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 229 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The workday shuffle in and out of Robbinsville
On a workday 181 residents head out to work and 48 work right here.
About 1,200 people are in Robbinsville on a workday afternoon, 112% more 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.
Each way, about 13 minutes from Robbinsville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Robbinsville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 156 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.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where Robbinsville’s workforce comes from
Where Robbinsville clocks in
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.
What Robbinsville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Robbinsville, 2013 → 2023: 1,114 → 879. 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 Robbinsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Robbinsville
About 25% 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.
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 Robbinsville: questions
What is the median household income in Robbinsville?
$17,802 (±$5,064) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Robbinsville?
40.9%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Robbinsville?
13 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 Robbinsville work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cherokee (4%, 31 mi), Murphy (3%, 20 mi), Asheville (3%, 73 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Robbinsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 39% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Robbinsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Robbinsville
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.