Photo: Badagnani · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Toast commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 21% of workers, against 16% across North Carolina. Employers in Toast report 155 jobs for 574 working residents. The average commute takes 19 minutes each way (North Carolina 25, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Toast: the figures worth knowing
Toast and Mount Airy trade workers both ways
Mount Airy is the top workplace for Toast residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Toast come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Toast is a place people come home to
There are 155 jobs based in Toast, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Toast has about 470 people in it, 47% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer than half of Toast workers earn over $40,000 a year
44% of Toast’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. 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 574 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
28% of working residents work in Mount Airy
Where Toast clocks in
28% 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.
Who leaves Toast for work, and who comes in
On a workday 570 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 151 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Toast on a workday afternoon, 47% fewer 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.
The kinds of work in Toast
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Toast, 2013 → 2023: 254 → 155. 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 Toast’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Toast spends getting to work: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Toast workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 394 commuters (the 21% 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 distance from Toast to work
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.
Next door is work for 28% of Toast
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Toast workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toast | – | — | — | 19 min | $35,111 |
| Mount Airy | 28% | C− | B | 18 min | $40,275 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Mount Airy. Darker towns draw more of Toast’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 Toast: questions
What is the median household income in Toast?
$35,111 (±$12,009) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Toast?
14.0%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Toast?
19 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Toast work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Airy (28%, 1 mi), Winston-Salem (10%, 34 mi), Dobson (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Toast without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Toast, from the people who make the trip.
More of Toast
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.