Photo: Gerry Dincher · CC BY-SA 2.0Work means Winston-Salem for about half of Tobaccoville’s working residents
The two grades for Tobaccoville are B+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 2% stay in Tobaccoville for work; outside it, Winston-Salem is the main destination (46%, 10 miles). 24% of workers have no commute at all (North Carolina 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Tobaccoville
Tobaccoville makes and builds things
88% of the jobs based in Tobaccoville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Tobaccoville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Tobaccoville pay better than its residents’ jobs
89% of the jobs based in Tobaccoville pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 60% of the jobs Tobaccoville residents hold. 97% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Tobaccoville. The jobs ↓
Nearly half of Tobaccoville works in Winston-Salem
502 working residents, 46%, have their main job in Winston-Salem, 10 miles away across the town line. That’s 23 times as many as work in Tobaccoville itself. The commute map ↓
A lot of Tobaccoville works from home
24% of Tobaccoville workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Time on the road ↓
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.
Inside Tobaccoville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tobaccoville is better than 67% of U.S. towns, #80 of 290 in North Carolina. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Tobaccoville’s grade. It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tobaccoville could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Tobaccoville works in goods: 88% of its jobs
904 jobs are based in Tobaccoville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tobaccoville, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 904. 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 Tobaccoville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Tobaccoville: the destinations
Where Tobaccoville clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Tobaccoville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tobaccoville workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 842 commuters (the 24% 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 daily flow of workers through Tobaccoville
On a workday 1,076 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 879 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 (0.82 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 commute from Tobaccoville, by distance
About 20% 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.
Most of Tobaccoville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tobaccoville is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns, #268 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Tobaccoville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,102 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 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 51% 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). 1.7% of Tobaccoville households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tobaccoville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Tobaccoville ranks: 1,388th of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700
| # | 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+ |
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| 108 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
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| 162 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 408 | Swepsonville NC | 2,632 | $101K | 4.1% | 2.2% | 3% | A |
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| 1,386 | Upper Augusta Township PA | 2,432 | $69K | 4.6% | 2.8% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,387 | Russell KY | 3,628 | $76K | 4.7% | 3.9% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,388 | Tobaccoville NC | 2,770 | $80K | 8.4% | 3.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,389 | Leavenworth WA | 3,373 | $70K | 2.9% | 0.7% | 31% | B+ |
| 1,390 | Plumcreek Township PA | 2,041 | $88K | 4.2% | 3.3% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Tobaccoville, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
The towns next door employ 48% of Tobaccoville
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tobaccoville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tobaccoville | – | B+ | D | 21 min | $80,263 |
| King | 2% | B+ | C− | 25 min | $57,817 |
| Winston-Salem | 46% | C | B+ | 22 min | $59,268 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Winston-Salem. Darker towns draw more of Tobaccoville’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 Tobaccoville: questions
What is the median household income in Tobaccoville?
$80,263 (±$8,243) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tobaccoville?
8.4%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tobaccoville?
21 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tobaccoville work?
2% work in town.
Is Tobaccoville walkable?
Tobaccoville is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tobaccoville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tobaccoville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tobaccoville
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.