First Christian Church · Photo: RobersonvilleHistoryBuff · Public domainRobersonville has lower household incomes than 94% of U.S. towns
For 4% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across North Carolina. 29.8% of residents are in poverty, where North Carolina as a whole has 13.0%. Jobs and income earn Robersonville D; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Robersonville
Robersonville is where the jobs are
Robersonville has 787 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Robersonville makes and builds things
59% of the jobs based in Robersonville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Robersonville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. The jobs ↓
Few Robersonville workers work from home
Only 4% 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 476 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Robersonville’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Robersonville is better than 5% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Robersonville’s grade up (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (7.4%) is left out: Robersonville’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, Robersonville could be anywhere from D− to D.
Who works in Robersonville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 439 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 750 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Robersonville on a workday afternoon, 25% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Goods, not services: 59% of the jobs in Robersonville
787 jobs are based in Robersonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Robersonville, 2013 → 2023: 791 → 787. 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 Robersonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Robersonville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Robersonville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 453 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who travels to work in Robersonville, and from where
Where Robersonville clocks in
18% of workers
7% 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.
Where in the region Robersonville works
About 29% 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.
Most of Robersonville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Robersonville is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 472 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). 13.5% of Robersonville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Robersonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Robersonville is 4,365th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 4,363 | Ellaville GA | 1,529 | $47K | 16.9% | 8.0% | 21% | D |
| 4,364 | Itta Bena MS | 1,482 | $36K | 20.1% | 22.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,365 | Robersonville NC | 1,237 | $44K | 29.8% | 7.4% | 8% | D |
| 4,366 | Beaver OK | 1,213 | $56K | 18.2% | 0.9% | 32% | D |
| 4,367 | Vian OK | 1,386 | $41K | 24.2% | 9.2% | 5% | 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 Robersonville, 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 Robersonville: questions
What is the median household income in Robersonville?
$43,523 (±$9,275) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Robersonville?
29.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Robersonville?
31 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Robersonville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (18%, 17 mi), Williamston (7%, 11 mi), New Bern (3%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Robersonville walkable?
Robersonville is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Robersonville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Robersonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Robersonville
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.