Work & commute · Hope Mills

Work & commute in Hope Mills, NC

Most working residents leave Hope Mills for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Fayetteville (39%), Raleigh (4%) and Charlotte (2%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

320 of 6,209 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 5,889 Hope Mills residents head out of town to work, 320 work right here, and 4,713 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hope Mills.

5,889live here, work elsewhere

320live and work here

4,713work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hope Mills goes to work

Fayetteville7.8 mi away

39%2,393

Hope Mills (in town)right here

5%320

Raleigh62.3 mi away

4%274

Charlotte107.1 mi away

2%154

Lumberton23.6 mi away

2%133

Raeford15.3 mi away

1%76

Durham69.8 mi away

1%76

Lumber Bridge8.4 mi away

1%72

Spring Lake15 mi away

1%60

Greensboro91.7 mi away

1%57

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%2,594

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

How far

How far Hope Mills commutes

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

49%

17%

28%

49%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hope Mills is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Hope Mills are

5,033 jobs are based in Hope Mills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hope Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hope Mills

5,033 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Hope Mills residents hold

6,209 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

+50%

Jobs based in Hope Mills, 2013 → 2023: 3,353 → 5,033. 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.