Work & commute · Boiling Springs

Work & commute in Boiling Springs, NC

Most working residents leave Boiling Springs for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Shelby (19%), Charlotte (7%) and Gastonia (4%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

141 of 1,790 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 1,649 Boiling Springs residents head out of town to work, 141 work right here, and 1,322 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Boiling Springs.

1,649live here, work elsewhere

141live and work here

1,322work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Boiling Springs goes to work

Shelby7.2 mi away

19%337

Boiling Springs (in town)right here

8%141

Charlotte47.1 mi away

7%128

Gastonia27 mi away

4%80

Forest City13 mi away

3%51

Kings Mountain17.7 mi away

2%41

Raleigh174.6 mi away

2%33

Gaffney, SC12.3 mi away

1%25

Hickory38.5 mi away

1%21

Winston-Salem98.3 mi away

1%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%913

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

How far

How far Boiling Springs commutes

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

39%

17%

23%

20%

39%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Boiling Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

0.82jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Boiling Springs are

1,463 jobs are based in Boiling Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Boiling Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Boiling Springs

1,463 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Boiling Springs residents hold

1,790 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−9%

Jobs based in Boiling Springs, 2013 → 2023: 1,605 → 1,463. 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.