Households in Stoneville have lower incomes than those in 93% of U.S. towns
For 5% of workers, the job is at home, where North Carolina as a whole has 16%. Poverty touches 28.3% of residents; North Carolina has 13.0%. Stoneville grades D for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Stoneville
Stoneville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Stoneville is Greensboro, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (95) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Stoneville makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in Stoneville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Stoneville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. 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 581 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Stoneville earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Stoneville is better than 6% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Stoneville’s grade up (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (8.1%) is left out: Stoneville’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, Stoneville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How far Stoneville’s workers travel
About 24% 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.
Stoneville works in goods: 45% of its jobs
390 jobs are based in Stoneville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stoneville, 2013 → 2023: 358 → 390. 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 Stoneville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Stoneville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 563 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 372 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Stoneville on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.67 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.
Where the trip to work from Stoneville ends
Where Stoneville clocks in
16% 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.
From Stoneville, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stoneville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 469 commuters (the 5% 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.
For most of Stoneville, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 493 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). 9.1% of Stoneville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stoneville’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,784th of 5,400: where Stoneville ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 4,782 | Lenox Township OH | 1,378 | $49K | 28.0% | 7.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,783 | Upper Fruitland NM | 1,457 | $49K | 29.3% | 12.1% | 0% | D |
| 4,784 | Stoneville NC | 1,364 | $45K | 28.3% | 8.1% | 3% | D |
| 4,785 | New Rockford ND | 1,342 | $44K | 12.9% | 3.7% | 30% | D |
| 4,786 | Kettle Falls WA | 1,657 | $49K | 14.5% | 7.3% | 10% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Stoneville, 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 Stoneville: questions
What is the median household income in Stoneville?
$44,630 (±$22,159) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stoneville?
28.3%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stoneville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stoneville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greensboro (16%, 26 mi), Eden (9%, 10 mi), Mayodan (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stoneville walkable?
Stoneville is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stoneville 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 Stoneville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stoneville
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.