Spurgeon House · Photo: Eastward Gypsy · CC BY-SA 4.0Wallburg has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
578 jobs are based in Wallburg; 1,489 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Wallburg is better than 78% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (C). 8% of workers work from home; North Carolina has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Wallburg
The better-paid jobs are outside Wallburg
65% of Wallburg residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 34% of the jobs based in Wallburg pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Wallburg and Winston-Salem trade workers both ways
Winston-Salem is the top workplace for Wallburg residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Wallburg come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Wallburg pay little
29% of the jobs based in Wallburg pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 32% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Wallburg has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Wallburg went from 412 in 2013 to 578 in 2023, +40%. 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.
Income, poverty and work: Wallburg’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Wallburg’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wallburg could be anywhere from B to A+.
What Wallburg’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wallburg, 2013 → 2023: 412 → 578. 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 Wallburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Out of Wallburg to work: where people go
Where Wallburg clocks in
11% 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.
How a workday changes Wallburg
On a workday 1,465 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 554 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Wallburg on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Wallburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wallburg workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,374 commuters (the 8% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Wallburg
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Wallburg commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,495 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). 0.0% of Wallburg households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wallburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wallburg next to U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400: 852nd of 4,453 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Jamestown NC | 3,803 | $105K | 2.5% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 119 | Avery Creek NC | 2,887 | $113K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Wrightsville Beach NC | 2,397 | $152K | 4.0% | 0.4% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 850 | Rosedale WA | 4,208 | $159K | 2.5% | 6.5% | 1% | A− |
| 851 | Otsego MI | 4,045 | $74K | 5.3% | 2.3% | 7% | A− |
| 852 | Wallburg NC | 3,255 | $88K | 2.4% | 4.8% | 2% | A− |
| 853 | Centerville PA | 3,223 | $71K | 4.5% | 1.1% | 3% | A− |
| 854 | Hanover Township OH | 3,226 | $104K | 5.4% | 3.1% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | 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 Wallburg, 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 Wallburg: questions
What is the median household income in Wallburg?
$88,406 (±$10,524) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wallburg?
2.4%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wallburg?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wallburg work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winston-Salem (25%, 8 mi), High Point (15%, 10 mi), Greensboro (11%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wallburg walkable?
Wallburg is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wallburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wallburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wallburg
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.