Work & commute · Boiling Spring Lakes

Work & commute in Boiling Spring Lakes, NC

Most working residents leave Boiling Spring Lakes for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Wilmington (18%), Southport (9%) and Oak Island (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

101 of 2,605 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,504 Boiling Spring Lakes residents head out of town to work, 101 work right here, and 745 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Boiling Spring Lakes.

2,504live here, work elsewhere

101live and work here

745work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Boiling Spring Lakes goes to work

Wilmington16.5 mi away

18%461

Southport8.6 mi away

9%238

Oak Island8.8 mi away

6%154

Boiling Spring Lakes (in town)right here

4%101

Charlotte175.6 mi away

3%72

Raleigh127.8 mi away

3%72

Leland12.4 mi away

3%67

Shallotte17.3 mi away

2%61

St. James6.6 mi away

2%44

Bald Head Island13.5 mi away

2%43

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%1,292

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

How far

How far Boiling Spring Lakes commutes

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

34%

38%

24%

34%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Boiling Spring Lakes is a commuter town

0.32jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.32 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Boiling Spring Lakes are

846 jobs are based in Boiling Spring Lakes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Boiling Spring Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Boiling Spring Lakes

846 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Boiling Spring Lakes residents hold

2,605 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+103%

Jobs based in Boiling Spring Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 417 → 846. 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.