William P. Morrow House · Photo: MarkMorrow20 · CC BY-SA 4.0Saxapahaw has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 211 jobs in Saxapahaw, and 731 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Saxapahaw is better than 25% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+). Measured by household income, Saxapahaw is behind 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Saxapahaw: the figures worth knowing
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Saxapahaw
Job access by car holds Saxapahaw’s grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($59,000, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Saxapahaw’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Saxapahaw could be anywhere from D to B+.
Saxapahaw on a workday afternoon
On a workday 726 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 206 people come in from elsewhere.
About 780 people are in Saxapahaw on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
13% of working residents work in Burlington
Where Saxapahaw clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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.
Goods jobs make up 31% of work in Saxapahaw
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Saxapahaw, 2014 → 2024: 132 → 211. 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 Saxapahaw’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, about the NC average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Saxapahaw workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 456 commuters (the 21% 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.
How far Saxapahaw’s workers travel
About 16% 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.
Most trips from Saxapahaw start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 579 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.2% of Saxapahaw households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Saxapahaw’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Saxapahaw is 3,397th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 233 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,395 | Haines Township PA | 1,595 | $77K | 15.0% | 3.4% | 4% | C− |
| 3,396 | Leon WI | 1,569 | $68K | 13.2% | 2.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,397 | Saxapahaw NC | 1,301 | $59K | 15.1% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,398 | Monette AR | 1,679 | $54K | 10.4% | 9.9% | 6% | C− |
| 3,399 | Ross Township IL | 1,418 | $64K | 10.6% | 2.6% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Saxapahaw, 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 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 Saxapahaw: questions
What is the median household income in Saxapahaw?
$59,000 (±$22,936) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Saxapahaw?
15.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Saxapahaw?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Saxapahaw work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burlington (13%, 12 mi), Chapel Hill (11%, 16 mi), Durham (10%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Saxapahaw walkable?
Saxapahaw is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Saxapahaw without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Saxapahaw, from the people who make the trip.
More of Saxapahaw
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. 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.