Pisgah Community Covered Bridge · Photo: Donald Lee Pardue · CC BY 2.0A job hub: Seagrove has 4.1 jobs per working resident, and 352 people come in to work
Employers in Seagrove report 354 jobs, against 86 working residents. Only 2% stay in Seagrove for work; outside it, Asheboro is the main destination (24%, 11 miles). Home is the office for 3% of workers, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Seagrove on a workday
On a workday 84 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 520 people are in Seagrove on a workday afternoon, 108% 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.
The towns that send workers to Seagrove
Where Seagrove clocks in
24% of workers
7% 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.
Seagrove makes things: 35% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seagrove, 2013 → 2023: 332 → 354. 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 Seagrove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Seagrove
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seagrove workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 204 commuters (the 3% 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 it is to work from Seagrove
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 Seagrove: questions
What is the median household income in Seagrove?
$64,926 (±$26,949) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seagrove?
14.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seagrove?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seagrove work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Asheboro (24%, 11 mi), Charlotte (7%, 63 mi), Winston-Salem (6%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Seagrove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seagrove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seagrove
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.