Photo: Gerry Dincher · CC BY-SA 2.0Wagram at work: jobs, income and the commute
The average commute takes 27 minutes each way, where North Carolina has 25 and the U.S. 26. 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Hardly any work in Wagram; the top destination outside it is Laurinburg (16%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wagram, in a few figures
Wagram and Laurinburg trade workers both ways
Laurinburg is the top workplace for Wagram residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Wagram come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Wagram workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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; with 243 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where the trip to work from Wagram ends
Where Wagram clocks in
16% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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 trip to work from Wagram: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wagram workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 309 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who leaves Wagram for work, and who comes in
On a workday 241 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 141 people come in from elsewhere.
About 510 people are in Wagram on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.59 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 2023, primary jobs.
What the 143 jobs in Wagram are
143 jobs are based in Wagram.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wagram, 2013 → 2023: 251 → 143. 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 Wagram’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Wagram commutes less than 22 miles
About 26% 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 Wagram: questions
What is the median household income in Wagram?
$52,159 (±$14,219) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wagram?
9.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wagram?
27 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wagram work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Laurinburg (16%, 11 mi), Fayetteville (5%, 26 mi), Southern Pines (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wagram without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wagram, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wagram
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.