Photo: Dclemens1971 · CC BY 4.0Charlotte draws about half of Stallings’ working residents
Working from home is the commute for 25% of workers; North Carolina has 16%. The two grades for Stallings are A− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Stallings
Nearly half of Stallings works in Charlotte
3,819 working residents, 49%, have their main job in Charlotte, 12 miles away. That’s 16 times as many as work in Stallings itself. The commute map ↓
A lot of Stallings works from home
25% of Stallings workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Time on the road ↓
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.
The figures behind Stallings’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Stallings is better than 82% of U.S. towns, #37 of 290 in North Carolina. Household income holds Stallings’ grade up ($115,974, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Stallings could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Where Stallings goes to work
Where Stallings clocks in
49% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Stallings’ commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stallings workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,983 commuters (the 25% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Stallings
On a workday 7,559 residents head out to work, 201 work right here, and 4,337 people come in from elsewhere.
About 15,000 people are in Stallings on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Making and building: 32% of jobs based in Stallings
4,538 jobs are based in Stallings.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stallings, 2013 → 2023: 3,955 → 4,538. 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 Stallings’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Stallings
About 15% 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.
In Stallings, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stallings is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #159 of 290 in North Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% 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 9,342 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 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% 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). 2.2% of Stallings households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Stallings’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Stallings ranks: 609th of 2,103 U.S. towns of 12,000 to 24,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 40 | Weddington NC | 14,517 | $191K | 4.0% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
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| 143 | Harrisburg NC | 20,742 | $148K | 3.7% | 3.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 193 | Wendell NC | 19,687 | $96K | 3.2% | 1.3% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 607 | Roselle IL | 22,756 | $111K | 4.1% | 6.8% | 5% | A− |
| 608 | North Liberty IA | 21,976 | $102K | 6.1% | 3.3% | 9% | A− |
| 609 | Stallings NC | 17,760 | $116K | 4.8% | 5.3% | 3% | A− |
| 610 | York ME | 14,293 | $121K | 5.8% | 2.7% | 31% | A− |
| 611 | Bedford NY | 16,933 | $196K | 8.9% | 4.4% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,103 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Stallings, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
10% of Stallings works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Indian Trail (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Stallings workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stallings | – | A− | C+ | 28 min | $115,974 |
| Indian Trail | 6% | A− | C | 28 min | $108,483 |
| Hemby Bridge | under 2% | B− | C | 27 min | $71,688 |
| Weddington | under 2% | A+ | B− | 28 min | $190,766 |
| Matthews | 4% | A+ | B | 25 min | $108,611 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Stallings’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Stallings: questions
What is the median household income in Stallings?
$115,974 (±$10,627) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stallings?
4.8%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stallings?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stallings work?
3% work in town.
Is Stallings walkable?
Stallings is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stallings without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stallings, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stallings
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.