Work & commute · Coats

Work & commute in Coats, NC

Most working residents leave Coats for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Raleigh (12%), Dunn (6%) and Fayetteville (4%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 928 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 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 903 Coats residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 573 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Coats.

903live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

573work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Coats goes to work

Raleigh29.4 mi away

12%113

Dunn7.3 mi away

6%56

Fayetteville28.3 mi away

4%38

Lillington8.1 mi away

4%35

Fuquay-Varina15.1 mi away

3%32

Cary27.4 mi away

3%32

Durham41.5 mi away

3%28

Charlotte122.7 mi away

3%27

Coats (in town)right here

3%25

Benson7.3 mi away

2%23

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%519

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

How far

How far Coats commutes

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

28%

23%

30%

19%

28%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

30%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Coats is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Coats are

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

Jobs based in Coats

598 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month31%

Jobs Coats residents hold

928 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+6%

Jobs based in Coats, 2013 → 2023: 565 → 598. 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.