Work & commute · Hot Springs

Work & commute in Hot Springs, NC

Most working residents leave Hot Springs for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Asheville (22%), Charlotte (7%) and Marshall (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

27 of 200 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 173 Hot Springs residents head out of town to work, 27 work right here, and 234 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hot Springs.

173live here, work elsewhere

27live and work here

234work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hot Springs goes to work

Asheville27.2 mi away

22%43

Hot Springs (in town)right here

14%27

Charlotte121.9 mi away

7%14

Marshall10.7 mi away

5%10

Weaverville20.4 mi away

5%9

Waynesville29.7 mi away

4%7

Canton24.7 mi away

2%3

Greensboro168.6 mi away

2%3

Woodfin21.8 mi away

1%2

Wilmington302.8 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%80

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

How far

How far Hot Springs commutes

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

25%

28%

22%

25%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hot Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.31jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.31 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Hot Springs are

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

Jobs based in Hot Springs

261 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month50%

Over $3,333 a month28%

Jobs Hot Springs residents hold

200 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+73%

Jobs based in Hot Springs, 2013 → 2023: 151 → 261. 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.