Greene County Courthouse · Photo: Indy beetle · CC0Snow Hill’s household incomes are among the lowest in the country
Jobs & income D: better than 7% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access.
Walkability A: more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 22 minutes each way (North Carolina 25, U.S. 26). About one in seven work in Snow Hill; the top destination outside it is Kinston (12%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Snow Hill, in brief
Snow Hill is where the jobs are
Snow Hill has 1,584 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,600 people are in town, 63% more than the 1,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
The biggest group of Snow Hill’s workers comes from Greenville
135 of the people who work in Snow Hill live in Greenville, 20 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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 585 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Snow Hill’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Snow Hill is better than 7% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Snow Hill’s grade up (ahead of 48% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (40.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Snow Hill could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Snow Hill nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 503 residents head out to work, 82 work right here, and 1,502 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Snow Hill on a workday afternoon, 63% more than live here.
2.7 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.
Where Snow Hill’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Snow Hill clocks in
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 1,584 jobs in Snow Hill are
1,584 jobs are based in Snow Hill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Snow Hill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Snow Hill, 2013 → 2023: 1,313 → 1,584. 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.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of North Carolina
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Snow Hill workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 903 commuters (the 7% 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.
Half of Snow Hill commutes less than 17 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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.
Snow Hill is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Snow Hill is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 8.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 973 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.4% of Snow Hill households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Snow Hill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Snow Hill is 5,043rd of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Snow Hill, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 296 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,041 | Elmer Township MI | 1,205 | $62K | 18.0% | 2.2% | 1% | D |
| 5,042 | Perry Township OH | 2,014 | $54K | 45.2% | 1.6% | 1% | D |
| 5,043 | Snow Hill NC | 1,588 | $32K | 40.2% | 7.4% | 14% | D |
| 5,044 | Bladenboro NC | 1,656 | $52K | 27.3% | 3.6% | 6% | D |
| 5,045 | Shattuck OK | 1,194 | $55K | 15.5% | 8.3% | 24% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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.
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 Snow Hill: questions
What is the median household income in Snow Hill?
$31,629 (±$12,462) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Snow Hill?
40.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Snow Hill?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Snow Hill work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kinston (12%, 13 mi), Greenville (8%, 20 mi), Goldsboro (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Snow Hill walkable?
Snow Hill is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Snow Hill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Snow Hill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Snow Hill
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.