Work & commute · Horse Shoe

Work & commute in Horse Shoe, NC

Most working residents leave Horse Shoe for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Asheville (15%), Hendersonville (14%) and Mills River (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 1,008 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 994 Horse Shoe residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 211 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Horse Shoe.

994live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

211work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Horse Shoe goes to work

Asheville16.5 mi away

15%156

Hendersonville6 mi away

14%140

Mills River3.7 mi away

7%74

Charlotte98.1 mi away

5%51

Fletcher7.6 mi away

4%36

Brevard11 mi away

3%28

Etowah2.4 mi away

2%20

Raleigh223 mi away

1%15

Horse Shoe (in town)right here

1%14

East Flat Rock9 mi away

1%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%462

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

How far

How far Horse Shoe commutes

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

50%

24%

20%

50%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Horse Shoe is a commuter town

0.22jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Horse Shoe are

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

Jobs based in Horse Shoe

225 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Horse Shoe residents hold

1,008 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

−3%

Jobs based in Horse Shoe, 2013 → 2023: 232 → 225. 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.