Work & commute · Butner

Work & commute in Butner, NC

Most working residents leave Butner for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Durham (24%), Raleigh (16%) and Charlotte (3%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

157 of 2,793 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 2,636 Butner residents head out of town to work, 157 work right here, and 3,885 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Butner.

2,636live here, work elsewhere

157live and work here

3,885work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Butner goes to work

Durham13.9 mi away

24%673

Raleigh21.6 mi away

16%458

Butner (in town)right here

6%157

Charlotte133.6 mi away

3%84

Oxford15.5 mi away

3%76

Cary24.8 mi away

2%55

Greensboro60.5 mi away

2%46

Morrisville21.3 mi away

1%39

Creedmoor3.6 mi away

1%34

Wilson53.2 mi away

1%32

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%1,139

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

How far

How far Butner commutes

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

17%

51%

10%

22%

17%Under 10 mi

51%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Butner is balanced between jobs and homes

1.45jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.45 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Butner are

4,042 jobs are based in Butner. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Butner’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Butner

4,042 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities56%

Services (health, schools, offices…)27%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Butner residents hold

2,793 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+96%

Jobs based in Butner, 2013 → 2023: 2,058 → 4,042. 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.