Philip Sowers House · Photo: AmaryllisGardener · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Tyro commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 3% of workers, next to 16% for North Carolina as a whole. 517 jobs are based in Tyro for 1,677 working residents. Tyro grades C+ for jobs and income and D 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 Tyro
Few Tyro workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Tyro has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Tyro went from 361 in 2013 to 517 in 2023, +43%. The jobs ↓
Tyro makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Tyro are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Tyro residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Tyro
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tyro is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #145 of 290 in North Carolina. Unemployment holds Tyro’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($58,364, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tyro could be anywhere from C− to A−.
From Tyro, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tyro workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,578 commuters (the 3% 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.
Tyro works in goods: 35% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tyro, 2013 → 2023: 361 → 517. 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 Tyro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Tyro
On a workday 1,626 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 466 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Tyro on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
14% of working residents work in Lexington
Where Tyro clocks in
14% of workers
7% 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.
The commute from Tyro, by distance
About 17% 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.
Few in Tyro walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tyro is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns, #274 of 290 in North Carolina. Both inputs place Tyro 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 1,625 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). 3.0% of Tyro households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tyro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,264 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200, Tyro comes 2,410th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 187 | Fairview NC | 3,805 | $99K | 1.8% | 1.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,408 | Lodi OH | 2,822 | $52K | 9.3% | 4.6% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,409 | Croton Township MI | 3,472 | $77K | 12.7% | 2.1% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,410 | Tyro NC | 3,833 | $58K | 15.7% | 2.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,411 | Stephentown NY | 2,782 | $89K | 3.7% | 18.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,412 | Somers Township OH | 3,814 | $64K | 16.9% | 2.4% | 11% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | 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 Tyro, 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 Tyro: questions
What is the median household income in Tyro?
$58,364 (±$11,621) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tyro?
15.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tyro?
26 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tyro work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lexington (14%, 6 mi), Winston-Salem (10%, 22 mi), Salisbury (7%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tyro walkable?
Tyro is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tyro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tyro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tyro
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.