Work & commute · Icard

Work & commute in Icard, NC

Most working residents leave Icard for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Hickory (22%), Morganton (9%) and Valdese (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

45 of 1,056 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 1,011 Icard residents head out of town to work, 45 work right here, and 985 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Icard.

1,011live here, work elsewhere

45live and work here

985work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Icard goes to work

Hickory7.5 mi away

22%230

Morganton13.7 mi away

9%91

Icard (in town)right here

4%45

Valdese6.8 mi away

4%44

Charlotte50.1 mi away

4%41

Conover13.6 mi away

3%33

Lenoir13 mi away

3%30

Newton13.3 mi away

3%27

Claremont17 mi away

2%21

Long View4 mi away

2%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%473

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

How far

How far Icard commutes

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

40%

31%

13%

17%

40%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Icard is balanced between jobs and homes

0.98jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Icard are

1,030 jobs are based in Icard. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Icard’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Icard

1,030 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)55%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Icard residents hold

1,056 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+57%

Jobs based in Icard, 2013 → 2023: 655 → 1,030. 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.