Hotel Troy · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Troy has 2.1 jobs per working resident, and 2,216 people come in to work
Measured by household income, Troy is behind 86% of U.S. towns. 2,428 jobs are based in Troy for 1,170 working residents. Troy grades C 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
Work in Troy: the figures worth knowing
How Troy earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Troy is better than 26% of U.S. towns, #202 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Troy’s grade up (1.7%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Troy could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who commutes out of Troy, and who commutes in
On a workday 958 residents head out to work and 212 work right here.
About 4,300 people are in Troy 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.
The daily trip into Troy
Where Troy clocks in
7% 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.
What Troy’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Troy, 2013 → 2023: 2,851 → 2,428. 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 Troy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Troy takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Troy workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,151 commuters (the 7% 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 many miles Troy commutes
About 27% 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.
Driving is how Troy gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Troy is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns, #243 of 290 in North Carolina. 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 1,243 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). 12.5% of Troy households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Troy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100, Troy ranks 3,501st of 4,771 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 172 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,499 | Cornville AZ | 3,618 | $73K | 6.7% | 8.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,500 | Mar-Mac NC | 2,877 | $54K | 11.8% | 5.2% | <1% | C |
| 3,501 | Troy NC | 3,020 | $52K | 20.2% | 1.7% | 18% | C |
| 3,502 | Walnut Township IN | 2,855 | $63K | 12.7% | 5.4% | 9% | C |
| 3,503 | Roxbury NY | 2,203 | $58K | 5.4% | 5.6% | 17% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Troy, 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 Troy: questions
What is the median household income in Troy?
$51,731 (±$20,267) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Troy?
20.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Troy?
25 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Troy work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlotte (7%, 54 mi), Asheboro (5%, 24 mi), Biscoe (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Troy walkable?
Troy is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Troy without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Troy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Troy
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.