Mast Farm · Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Valle Crucis
Only 1% stay in Valle Crucis for work; outside it, Boone is the main destination (30%, 7 miles). 45% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across North Carolina. Valle Crucis has 112 jobs for 176 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Valle Crucis on a workday afternoon
On a workday 174 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 110 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Valle Crucis on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.64 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The places Valle Crucis commutes to
Where Valle Crucis clocks in
30% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Valle Crucis
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Valle Crucis, 2014 → 2024: 49 → 112. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Valle Crucis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Valle Crucis
of Valle Crucis workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 90 commuters (the 45% 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.
Where in the region Valle Crucis works
About 18% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Valle Crucis: questions
What is the poverty rate in Valle Crucis?
6.2%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Valle Crucis work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boone (30%, 7 mi), Foscoe (8%, 4 mi), Blowing Rock (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Valle Crucis 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 Valle Crucis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Valle Crucis
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.