Photo: Ildar Sagdejev (Specious) · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Swepsonville has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 2,170 people come in to work
Measured by household income, Swepsonville is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns. Swepsonville has 2,203 jobs for 1,098 working residents. Jobs and income earn Swepsonville A; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Swepsonville stands out on work
Jobs in Swepsonville have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Swepsonville went from 915 in 2013 to 2,203 in 2023, +141%. The jobs ↓
Swepsonville is where the jobs are
Swepsonville has 2,203 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,700 people are in town, 42% more than the 2,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Swepsonville and Burlington trade workers both ways
Burlington is the top workplace for Swepsonville residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Swepsonville come from (14% of its jobs). 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Swepsonville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Swepsonville is better than 89% of U.S. towns, #25 of 290 in North Carolina. The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Swepsonville could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Making and building: 30% of jobs based in Swepsonville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Swepsonville, 2013 → 2023: 915 → 2,203. 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 Swepsonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Swepsonville
On a workday 1,065 residents head out to work and 33 work right here.
About 3,700 people are in Swepsonville on a workday afternoon, 42% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting in to Swepsonville: where workers come from
Where Swepsonville clocks in
15% of workers
13% of workers
10% 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.
About 26 minutes each way for Swepsonville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Swepsonville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,149 commuters (the 13% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Swepsonville
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.
Swepsonville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Swepsonville is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #163 of 290 in North Carolina. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.9% across North Carolina, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,325 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.9% of Swepsonville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Swepsonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,600, Swepsonville ranks 426th of 5,278 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 424 | Mission Canyon CA | 2,357 | $208K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 2% | A |
| 425 | Vamo FL | 2,936 | $88K | 2.0% | 5.0% | 4% | A |
| 426 | Swepsonville NC | 2,632 | $101K | 4.1% | 2.2% | 3% | A |
| 427 | Marion Township OH | 3,381 | $102K | 1.3% | 0.0% | 11% | A |
| 428 | Morada CA | 3,383 | $97K | 2.0% | 3.5% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 434 | Mineral Springs NC | 3,514 | $92K | 4.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,278 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Swepsonville, 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 Swepsonville: questions
What is the median household income in Swepsonville?
$100,559 (±$9,591) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Swepsonville?
4.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Swepsonville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Swepsonville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burlington (15%, 7 mi), Chapel Hill (13%, 19 mi), Durham (10%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Swepsonville walkable?
Swepsonville is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Swepsonville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Swepsonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Swepsonville
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.