Work & commute · Balfour

Work & commute in Balfour, NC

Most working residents leave Balfour for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Hendersonville (21%), Asheville (17%) and Charlotte (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

9 of 562 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 553 Balfour residents head out of town to work, 9 work right here, and 415 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Balfour.

553live here, work elsewhere

9live and work here

415work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Balfour goes to work

Hendersonville2.7 mi away

21%119

Asheville15.5 mi away

17%95

Charlotte94 mi away

4%22

Fletcher5.6 mi away

3%19

Mills River6 mi away

3%15

East Flat Rock6.4 mi away

2%13

Brevard15.3 mi away

2%9

Balfour (in town)right here

2%9

Etowah6.5 mi away

2%9

Greensboro158 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%244

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

How far

How far Balfour commutes

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

53%

24%

16%

53%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Balfour is balanced between jobs and homes

0.75jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Balfour are

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

Jobs based in Balfour

424 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)73%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)12%

$1,250 a month or less5%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month82%

Jobs Balfour residents hold

562 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+46%

Jobs based in Balfour, 2013 → 2023: 291 → 424. 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.