Work & commute · Kinston

Work & commute in Kinston, AL

Most working residents leave Kinston for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Opp (13%), Enterprise (10%) and Dothan (10%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 197 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 192 Kinston residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 225 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Kinston.

192live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

225work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Kinston goes to work

Opp6.8 mi away

13%25

Enterprise20.5 mi away

10%19

Dothan45.1 mi away

10%19

Andalusia19.2 mi away

9%17

Troy42 mi away

5%10

Elba14.7 mi away

4%8

Kinston (in town)right here

3%5

Geneva21.2 mi away

3%5

Samson10.4 mi away

2%4

Montgomery78.2 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%82

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Kinston commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

17%

36%

28%

20%

17%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Kinston is balanced between jobs and homes

1.17jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Kinston are

230 jobs are based in Kinston. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kinston’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Kinston

230 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Kinston residents hold

197 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−20%

Jobs based in Kinston, 2013 → 2023: 289 → 230. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.