Where Wakulla earns its living
Only 2% work in Wakulla; the top destination outside it is Laurinburg (18%, 13 miles). Wakulla has 53 jobs, against 50 working residents. At home: 14% of workers have no commute at all (North Carolina 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Wakulla
On a workday 49 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).
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 the trip to work from Wakulla ends
Where Wakulla clocks in
18% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Wakulla
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wakulla, 2013 → 2023: 5 → 53. 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 Wakulla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Wakulla
of Wakulla workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 65 commuters (the 14% 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.
The commute from Wakulla, by distance
About 20% 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 Wakulla: questions
What is the poverty rate in Wakulla?
26.1%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Wakulla work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Laurinburg (18%, 13 mi), Lumberton (12%, 18 mi), Fayetteville (8%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wakulla 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 Wakulla, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wakulla
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.