Photo: Gerry Dincher from Hope Mills, NC · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Salemburg
Only 5% work in Salemburg itself; outside it, Clinton draws the most (17%, 10 miles). The average commute takes 27 minutes each way (North Carolina 25, U.S. 26). Salemburg has 281 jobs, against 234 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Salemburg apart on work
The commute from Salemburg, by distance
About 30% 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.
How many people are in Salemburg by day
On a workday 222 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 269 people come in from elsewhere.
About 520 people are in Salemburg on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.20 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The places Salemburg commutes to
Where Salemburg clocks in
17% of workers
9% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Salemburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Salemburg, 2014 → 2024: 247 → 281. 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 Salemburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes each way, about the NC average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Salemburg workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 205 commuters (the 11% 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.
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 Salemburg: questions
What is the median household income in Salemburg?
$83,026 (±$21,899) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Salemburg?
9.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Salemburg?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Salemburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clinton (17%, 10 mi), Fayetteville (9%, 27 mi), Roseboro (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Salemburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Salemburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Salemburg
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.