Work & commute · Cape Carteret

Work & commute in Cape Carteret, NC

Most working residents leave Cape Carteret for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Morehead City (12%), Jacksonville (9%) and Emerald Isle (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

30 of 771 working residents

Typical commute

19 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 741 Cape Carteret residents head out of town to work, 30 work right here, and 809 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cape Carteret.

741live here, work elsewhere

30live and work here

809work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cape Carteret goes to work

Morehead City18.5 mi away

12%90

Jacksonville19.1 mi away

9%67

Emerald Isle2.6 mi away

6%48

Cedar Point1.3 mi away

5%42

Swansboro4.6 mi away

4%33

Raleigh118.9 mi away

4%33

Cape Carteret (in town)right here

4%30

Beaufort23.2 mi away

4%27

New Bern27.5 mi away

3%23

Kinston50.2 mi away

2%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%360

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

How far

How far Cape Carteret commutes

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

29%

34%

30%

29%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cape Carteret is balanced between jobs and homes

1.09jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cape Carteret are

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

Jobs based in Cape Carteret

839 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Cape Carteret residents hold

771 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+29%

Jobs based in Cape Carteret, 2013 → 2023: 650 → 839. 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.