Photo: Noelle Kendrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Wade commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Commuters spend 32 minutes getting to work on average, next to 25 for North Carolina and 26 for the U.S. Employers in Wade report 87 jobs, against 193 working residents. Hardly any stay in Wade for work; outside it, Fayetteville is the main destination (44%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Wade for work, and who comes in
On a workday 192 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 86 people come in from elsewhere.
About 550 people are in Wade on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
Where Wade’s working residents head each day
Where Wade clocks in
44% of workers
5% of workers
3% 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.
72% of the jobs in Wade pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wade, 2013 → 2023: 75 → 87. 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 Wade’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes each way, longer than most of North Carolina
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wade workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 174 commuters (the 12% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wade
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.
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 Wade: questions
What is the median household income in Wade?
$70,938 (±$31,246) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wade?
19.3%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wade?
32 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wade work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fayetteville (44%, 14 mi), Raleigh (5%, 46 mi), Charlotte (3%, 118 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wade without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wade, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wade
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.