Garner Farm · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Weldon are lower than in 90% of U.S. towns
17.5% of residents live below the poverty line, where North Carolina as a whole has 13.0%. The two grades for Weldon are D for jobs and income and B for walkability. 1% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Weldon apart on work
Weldon and Roanoke Rapids trade workers both ways
Roanoke Rapids is the top workplace for Weldon residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Weldon come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Fewer than half of Weldon workers earn over $40,000 a year
41% of Weldon’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 22% earn $1,250 a month or less. 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; with 507 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Weldon earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Weldon is better than 9% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Weldon’s grade.
Unemployment (6.5%) is left out: Weldon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Weldon could be anywhere from D− to C−.
17% of working residents work in Roanoke Rapids
Where Weldon clocks in
4% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Weldon
About 33% 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 the 596 jobs in Weldon are
596 jobs are based in Weldon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weldon, 2013 → 2023: 660 → 596. 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 Weldon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Weldon
On a workday 478 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 567 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 (1.18 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.
The daily trip from Weldon: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weldon workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 638 commuters (the 1% 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.
Few in Weldon walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weldon is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.9% across North Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 644 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 15.6% of Weldon households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Weldon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Weldon is 4,978th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Governors Club NC | 1,787 | $236K | 0.0% | 8.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 267 | Northlakes NC | 1,716 | $101K | 2.0% | 1.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,976 | Stockton IL | 1,669 | $47K | 15.6% | 4.6% | 16% | D |
| 4,977 | Bellaire MI | 1,059 | $56K | 14.0% | 0.2% | 18% | D |
| 4,978 | Weldon NC | 1,374 | $48K | 17.5% | 6.5% | 6% | D |
| 4,979 | Wolfe City TX | 1,503 | $52K | 22.9% | 5.2% | 5% | D |
| 4,980 | West Carroll Township PA | 1,140 | $51K | 24.5% | 8.9% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Weldon, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
Bordering towns draw 17% of Weldon’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Weldon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weldon | – | D | B | 24 min | $48,350 |
| Roanoke Rapids | 17% | D | B− | 22 min | $53,690 |
| South Weldon | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. South Weldon: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Roanoke Rapids. Darker towns draw more of Weldon’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Weldon: questions
What is the median household income in Weldon?
$48,350 (±$10,501) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weldon?
17.5%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weldon?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weldon work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roanoke Rapids (17%, 2 mi), Rocky Mount (4%, 33 mi), Raleigh (4%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Weldon walkable?
Weldon is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weldon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weldon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weldon
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.