Photo: Edward Orde · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Wilmington for about two in five of Wrightsboro’s working residents
8% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across North Carolina. The two grades for Wrightsboro are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 2% work in Wrightsboro; the top destination outside it is Wilmington (43%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Wrightsboro and work: the main findings
Wrightsboro trades workers with the towns around it
Wrightsboro has about as many jobs (2,083) as working residents (2,398), but they are mostly different people: 2,348 residents leave for work each day while 2,033 people come in. Only 2% of the jobs in Wrightsboro are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
43% of Wrightsboro works in Wilmington
1,022 working residents, 43%, have their main job in Wilmington, 6.1 miles away across the town line. That’s 22 times as many as work in Wrightsboro itself. The commute map ↓
Wrightsboro has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Wrightsboro went from 1,210 in 2013 to 2,083 in 2023, +72%. The jobs ↓
Most Wrightsboro residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
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.
The four measures behind Wrightsboro’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wrightsboro is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #94 of 290 in North Carolina. Job access by car holds Wrightsboro’s grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wrightsboro could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Wrightsboro
On a workday 2,348 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 2,033 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 (0.87 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 places Wrightsboro commutes to
Where Wrightsboro clocks in
43% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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 2,083 jobs based in Wrightsboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wrightsboro, 2013 → 2023: 1,210 → 2,083. 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 Wrightsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Wrightsboro, by distance
About 22% 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.
The trip to work from Wrightsboro: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wrightsboro workers work from home, vs 16% across North Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,090 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.
In Wrightsboro, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wrightsboro is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #150 of 290 in North Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% 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 3,342 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 34% 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). 4.5% of Wrightsboro households have no vehicle (North Carolina 5.3%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wrightsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Wrightsboro is 1,441st among 3,349 U.S. towns of 4,400 to 8,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Oak Ridge NC | 7,896 | $155K | 3.6% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 286 | Midland NC | 5,151 | $101K | 4.1% | 1.8% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 345 | Ogden NC | 8,249 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.4% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,439 | Loughman FL | 7,591 | $66K | 10.3% | 2.9% | <1% | B |
| 1,440 | Highland IN | 5,114 | $98K | 8.6% | 5.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,441 | Wrightsboro NC | 6,287 | $78K | 10.7% | 3.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,442 | White Hall AR | 5,532 | $78K | 8.6% | 3.1% | 12% | B |
| 1,443 | New Castle CO | 4,896 | $80K | 6.2% | 0.8% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,349 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Wrightsboro, the top three, the last and three more from North Carolina.
46% of Wrightsboro works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wrightsboro workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wrightsboro | – | B | C+ | 22 min | $78,450 |
| Wilmington | 43% | C+ | A | 19 min | $66,738 |
| Hightsville | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Kings Grant | 2% | B− | B− | 23 min | $62,232 |
| Blue Clay Farms | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Skippers Corner | 1% | C | C− | 20 min | $72,297 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hightsville and Blue Clay Farms: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Wilmington. Darker towns draw more of Wrightsboro’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 Wrightsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Wrightsboro?
$78,450 (±$6,912) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $72,388 across North Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wrightsboro?
10.7%, against 13.0% across North Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wrightsboro?
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 Wrightsboro work?
2% work in town.
Is Wrightsboro walkable?
Wrightsboro is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wrightsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wrightsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wrightsboro
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.