Photo: Piperpet · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 2.4 jobs in Shallotte for every working resident, and 4,343 people commute in
6% of workers work from home; North Carolina has 16%. Employers in Shallotte report 4,665 jobs, and 1,944 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Shallotte B−; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Shallotte and work: the main findings
Shallotte is where the jobs are
Shallotte has 4,665 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 8,100 people are in town, 51% more than the 5,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Shallotte’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Shallotte is Wilmington, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (158) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Shallotte
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Shallotte is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #123 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Shallotte’s grade up (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Shallotte could be anywhere from C− to A−.
In and out of Shallotte on a workday
On a workday 1,622 residents head out to work and 322 work right here.
About 8,100 people are in Shallotte on a workday afternoon, 51% more than live here.
2.4 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
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 commute from Shallotte, by distance
About 28% 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.
Where the people who work in Shallotte live
Where Shallotte clocks in
8% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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 kinds of work in Shallotte
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shallotte, 2013 → 2023: 3,737 → 4,665. 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 Shallotte’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes to work from Shallotte
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shallotte workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,119 commuters (the 6% 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.
The commute in Shallotte is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shallotte is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #154 of 290 in North Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.9% across North Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,243 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). 6.2% of Shallotte households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shallotte’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shallotte is 1,937th of 3,651 U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,200 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 204 | Fairview NC | 3,805 | $99K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 306 | Midland NC | 5,151 | $101K | 4.1% | 1.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,935 | Hutchinson Island South FL | 4,175 | $66K | 7.0% | 3.9% | 7% | B− |
| 1,936 | Egg Harbor City NJ | 4,426 | $72K | 7.9% | 5.5% | 5% | B− |
| 1,937 | Shallotte NC | 5,335 | $88K | 10.3% | 3.1% | 17% | B− |
| 1,938 | South Bloomfield OH | 4,164 | $76K | 10.8% | 5.5% | 2% | B− |
| 1,939 | Wilkins Township PA | 6,044 | $66K | 10.7% | 5.2% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,651 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Shallotte, 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 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 Shallotte: questions
What is the median household income in Shallotte?
$88,367 (±$21,272) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shallotte?
10.3%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shallotte?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shallotte work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilmington (8%, 32 mi), Charlotte (3%, 163 mi), Ocean Isle Beach (3%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shallotte walkable?
Shallotte is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shallotte without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shallotte, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shallotte
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. 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.