Photo: Travis K. Witt · CC BY-SA 4.0Statesville has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 22,341 people commute in to work
Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns. 26,505 jobs are based in Statesville for 14,543 working residents. For jobs and income Statesville is better than 20% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Statesville: the gist
Statesville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Statesville is Charlotte, 40 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (2,071) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Statesville draws workers from far and wide
The 26,505 jobs in Statesville are filled from a wide area. Statesville’s own residents hold 16% and the ten next-biggest home towns 14%; the other 70% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Statesville is where the jobs are
Statesville has 26,505 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Statesville are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 25 across North Carolina. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical North Carolina worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Statesville earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Statesville’s grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Statesville could be anywhere from D to C.
Near or far: the trip to work from Statesville
About 17% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Where Statesville’s workforce comes from
Where Statesville clocks in
14% of workers
7% of workers
2% 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.
How a workday changes Statesville
On a workday 10,379 residents head out to work and 4,164 work right here.
About 44,000 people are in Statesville on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
About 20 minutes each way for Statesville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Statesville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,713 commuters (the 8% 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.
What Statesville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Statesville, 2014 → 2024: 24,787 → 26,505. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Statesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Statesville walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.1% 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 13,806 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). 9.3% of Statesville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Statesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Statesville compares with U.S. towns of 23,000 to 43,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Matthews NC | 32,769 | $109K | 3.7% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | Morrisville NC | 32,466 | $125K | 3.1% | 3.3% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Cornelius NC | 35,094 | $114K | 5.4% | 2.4% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,153 | Florence AL | 42,581 | $52K | 17.9% | 6.3% | 39% | C− |
| 1,154 | Hobbs NM | 40,863 | $64K | 19.7% | 6.3% | 54% | C− |
| 1,155 | Statesville NC | 32,181 | $53K | 20.4% | 6.8% | 29% | C− |
| 1,156 | Shawnee OK | 32,474 | $56K | 20.8% | 6.0% | 28% | C− |
| 1,157 | Hopewell VA | 23,261 | $55K | 21.8% | 9.2% | 11% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,257 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 16% | 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 Statesville, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Around Statesville: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Troutman (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Statesville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statesville | – | C− | B | 20 min | $52,880 |
| Troutman | 2% | A− | C | 27 min | $98,462 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Statesville’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 2024, 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 Statesville: questions
What is the median household income in Statesville?
$52,880 (±$5,095) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Statesville?
20.4%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Statesville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Statesville work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlotte (14%, 40 mi), Mooresville (7%, 14 mi), Hickory (2%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Statesville walkable?
Statesville is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Statesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Statesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Statesville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.