Work & commute · Kill Devil Hills

Work & commute in Kill Devil Hills, NC

About one in 5 of Kill Devil Hills’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Nags Head (13%), Kitty Hawk (11%) and Manteo (5%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

22%

784 of 3,580 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,796 Kill Devil Hills residents head out of town to work, 784 work right here, and 2,430 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Kill Devil Hills.

2,796live here, work elsewhere

784live and work here

2,430work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Kill Devil Hills goes to work

Kill Devil Hills (in town)right here

22%784

Nags Head5.7 mi away

13%448

Kitty Hawk4.5 mi away

11%383

Manteo8.3 mi away

5%185

Duck12.6 mi away

4%147

Greenville99.8 mi away

3%91

Southern Shores7.7 mi away

2%84

Elizabeth City37 mi away

2%74

Raleigh166.6 mi away

2%65

Chesapeake, VA57.7 mi away

1%51

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%1,268

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

How far

How far Kill Devil Hills commutes

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

58%

28%

58%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Kill Devil Hills is balanced between jobs and homes

0.90jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Kill Devil Hills are

3,214 jobs are based in Kill Devil Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kill Devil Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Kill Devil Hills

3,214 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Kill Devil Hills residents hold

3,580 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+7%

Jobs based in Kill Devil Hills, 2013 → 2023: 3,016 → 3,214. 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.