Work & commute · Five Points

Work & commute in Five Points, NC

Most working residents leave Five Points for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Southern Pines (11%), Fayetteville (11%) and Raeford (10%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 353 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 353 Five Points residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Five Points.

353live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

43work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Five Points goes to work

Southern Pines12.7 mi away

11%38

Fayetteville21.9 mi away

11%38

Raeford7.3 mi away

10%34

Pinehurst13.9 mi away

8%27

Aberdeen9.5 mi away

6%21

Charlotte84.7 mi away

3%11

Raleigh69.1 mi away

2%7

Lumberton32.6 mi away

2%6

Laurinburg18.9 mi away

1%4

Carthage21.7 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%164

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

How far

How far Five Points commutes

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

20%

45%

26%

20%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Five Points is a commuter town

0.12jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Five Points are

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

Jobs based in Five Points

43 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)91%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Five Points residents hold

353 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+126%

Jobs based in Five Points, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 43. 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.