Ruffin has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
There are 3 jobs in Ruffin; 139 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Ruffin; the top destination outside it is Greensboro (18%, 29 miles). 9% of workers work from home, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Ruffin
On a workday 139 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 290 people are in Ruffin on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Ruffin work
Where Ruffin clocks in
18% of workers
6% 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.
67% of the jobs in Ruffin make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ruffin, 2014 → 2024: 9 → 3. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ruffin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 37 minutes each way for Ruffin’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ruffin workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 222 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ruffin
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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Ruffin: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ruffin?
6.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ruffin?
37 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 Ruffin work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greensboro (18%, 29 mi), Reidsville (12%, 10 mi), Danville (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Ruffin without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ruffin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ruffin
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.