Photo: User:Dincher · CC BY-SA 3.0Fayetteville draws about two in five of Stedman’s working residents
For 6% of workers, the job is at home; North Carolina has 16%. The two grades for Stedman are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Measured by household income, Stedman is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Stedman: the gist
40% of Stedman works in Fayetteville
192 working residents, 40%, have their main job in Fayetteville, 16 miles away. That’s 10 times as many as work in Stedman itself. The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Stedman pay little
31% of the jobs based in Stedman pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
45% of the jobs in Stedman are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
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 485 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Stedman’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Stedman is better than 66% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Stedman’s grade up ($107,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Stedman’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Stedman could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Where people from Stedman work
Where Stedman clocks in
40% of workers
4% 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.
What the 462 jobs in Stedman are
462 jobs are based in Stedman.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stedman, 2013 → 2023: 340 → 462. 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 Stedman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Stedman: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 468 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 445 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.95 per resident).
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 daily trip from Stedman: about 29 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 Stedman workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 789 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.
How far Stedman goes to work
About 21% 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 Stedman, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stedman is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 843 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). 1.2% of Stedman households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stedman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Stedman is 1,113th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 233 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,111 | Brigham WI | 1,061 | $114K | 10.2% | 1.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,112 | Philo IL | 1,352 | $106K | 10.3% | 0.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,113 | Stedman NC | 1,312 | $107K | 7.5% | 1.7% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,114 | Pine Knoll Shores NC | 1,423 | $109K | 3.5% | 3.8% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,115 | Lowell OR | 1,283 | $99K | 6.9% | 0.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Stedman, 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 Stedman: questions
What is the median household income in Stedman?
$107,250 (±$10,406) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stedman?
7.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stedman?
29 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 Stedman work?
4% work in town.
Is Stedman walkable?
Stedman is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stedman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stedman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stedman
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.