Work & commute · Buies Creek

Work & commute in Buies Creek, NC

Most working residents leave Buies Creek for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Raleigh (12%), Lillington (12%) and Fayetteville (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10 of 1,036 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 1,026 Buies Creek residents head out of town to work, 10 work right here, and 187 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Buies Creek.

1,026live here, work elsewhere

10live and work here

187work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Buies Creek goes to work

Raleigh29.9 mi away

12%127

Lillington3.9 mi away

12%120

Fayetteville26 mi away

5%54

Fuquay-Varina14 mi away

5%50

Charlotte118.5 mi away

4%40

Dunn9.9 mi away

3%32

Durham40.3 mi away

3%30

Cary26.3 mi away

2%25

Erwin7.1 mi away

2%19

Apex23.3 mi away

2%19

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%520

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

How far

How far Buies Creek commutes

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

24%

26%

29%

22%

24%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Buies Creek is a commuter town

0.19jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Buies Creek are

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

Jobs based in Buies Creek

197 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less38%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month29%

Jobs Buies Creek residents hold

1,036 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−86%

Jobs based in Buies Creek, 2013 → 2023: 1,433 → 197. 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.