Warren House and Warren's Store · Photo: Nyttend · Public domainJobs, income and commuting in Woodlawn, NC
28% of workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. The two grades for Woodlawn are A− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Hardly any work in Woodlawn; the top destination outside it is Burlington (13%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Woodlawn in brief
Woodlawn workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 40 minutes each way, against 25 across North Carolina. Over a year that’s about 307 hours of commuting, 115 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Woodlawn works from home
28% of Woodlawn workers work from home, against 16% across North Carolina. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 355 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Woodlawn’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Woodlawn is better than 78% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Woodlawn’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($72,734, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Woodlawn’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, Woodlawn could be anywhere from B− to A.
About 40 minutes each way for Woodlawn’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Woodlawn workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 314 commuters (the 28% 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 works in Woodlawn, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 353 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 205 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Woodlawn on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.58 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Woodlawn work
Where Woodlawn clocks in
13% of workers
10% 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.
What Woodlawn’s employers do
207 jobs are based in Woodlawn.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Woodlawn, 2014 → 2024: 248 → 207. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Woodlawn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Woodlawn commutes less than 21 miles
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Woodlawn start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Woodlawn is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 436 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 2% 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 40% 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). 2.6% of Woodlawn households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Woodlawn’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Woodlawn ranks: 405th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Biltmore Forest NC | 1,469 | $169K | 2.0% | 2.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 206 | Montreat NC | 1,024 | $116K | 0.0% | 9.6% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 235 | Advance NC | 1,408 | $115K | 5.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 403 | Waldo Township OH | 1,125 | $90K | 4.5% | 0.6% | 2% | A− |
| 404 | Highland Township PA | 1,020 | $109K | 3.5% | 0.8% | <1% | A− |
| 405 | Woodlawn NC | 1,085 | $73K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| 406 | Crocker WA | 1,254 | $110K | 6.5% | 1.4% | 1% | A− |
| 407 | South Amherst OH | 1,488 | $86K | 6.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Woodlawn, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
10% of Woodlawn works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Mebane. Darker towns draw more of Woodlawn’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 2024, 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 Woodlawn: questions
What is the median household income in Woodlawn?
$72,734 (±$41,378) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Woodlawn?
0.0%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Woodlawn?
40 minutes each way on average, against 25 across North Carolina and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Woodlawn work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Burlington (13%, 10 mi), Mebane (10%, 3 mi), Durham (10%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Woodlawn walkable?
Woodlawn is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Woodlawn without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Woodlawn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Woodlawn
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.