Work & commute · Forest Oaks

Work & commute in Forest Oaks, NC

Most working residents leave Forest Oaks for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Greensboro (42%), High Point (6%) and Winston-Salem (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

46 of 1,805 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,759 Forest Oaks residents head out of town to work, 46 work right here, and 506 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Forest Oaks.

1,759live here, work elsewhere

46live and work here

506work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Forest Oaks goes to work

Greensboro9.8 mi away

42%761

High Point15.9 mi away

6%111

Winston-Salem31.9 mi away

5%93

Charlotte82.9 mi away

5%86

Burlington14.7 mi away

4%78

Forest Oaks (in town)right here

3%46

Raleigh60.7 mi away

2%45

Durham45.3 mi away

1%26

Asheboro20.5 mi away

1%18

Kernersville22.4 mi away

1%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%523

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

How far

How far Forest Oaks commutes

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

37%

34%

10%

19%

37%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Forest Oaks is a commuter town

0.31jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Forest Oaks are

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

Jobs based in Forest Oaks

552 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Forest Oaks residents hold

1,805 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

−10%

Jobs based in Forest Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 613 → 552. 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.