Work & commute · Foscoe

Work & commute in Foscoe, NC

Most working residents leave Foscoe for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Boone (31%), Banner Elk (3%) and Charlotte (3%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 519 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 486 Foscoe residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 359 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Foscoe.

486live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

359work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Foscoe goes to work

Boone7.5 mi away

31%159

Foscoe (in town)right here

6%33

Banner Elk5.1 mi away

3%18

Charlotte84.1 mi away

3%17

Hickory38.4 mi away

3%14

Blowing Rock6.4 mi away

2%11

Winston-Salem84.7 mi away

2%10

Raleigh176.7 mi away

2%10

Sugar Mountain5.2 mi away

2%8

Seven Devils2 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%232

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

How far

How far Foscoe commutes

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

61%

25%

61%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Foscoe is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Foscoe are

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

Jobs based in Foscoe

392 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Foscoe residents hold

519 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+31%

Jobs based in Foscoe, 2013 → 2023: 300 → 392. 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.