Dr. Joseph A. McLean House · Photo: Eastward Gypsy · CC BY-SA 4.0Sedalia has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
5% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across North Carolina. 55 jobs are based in Sedalia, against 303 working residents. Hardly any work in Sedalia itself; outside it, Greensboro draws the most (36%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Sedalia and work: the main findings
Sedalia and Greensboro trade workers both ways
Greensboro is the top workplace for Sedalia residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Sedalia come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Sedalia is a place people come home to
There are 55 jobs based in Sedalia, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sedalia has about 440 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 303 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Sedalia work
Where Sedalia clocks in
36% of workers
10% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Sedalia
On a workday 301 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 53 people come in from elsewhere.
About 440 people are in Sedalia on a workday afternoon, 36% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Sedalia
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sedalia, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 55. 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 Sedalia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Sedalia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sedalia workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 377 commuters (the 5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Sedalia
About 22% 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 Sedalia: questions
What is the median household income in Sedalia?
$69,712 (±$18,212) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sedalia?
6.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sedalia?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sedalia work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greensboro (36%, 12 mi), Burlington (10%, 8 mi), Charlotte (6%, 91 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sedalia 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 Sedalia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sedalia
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.