Work & commute · Lumber Bridge

Work & commute in Lumber Bridge, NC

Most working residents leave Lumber Bridge for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Fayetteville (13%), Lumberton (8%) and Red Springs (5%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 38 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

11 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 37 Lumber Bridge residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 3,212 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lumber Bridge.

37live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

3,212work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lumber Bridge goes to work

Fayetteville14.4 mi away

13%5

Lumberton18.2 mi away

8%3

Red Springs8.5 mi away

5%2

Charlotte101.9 mi away

5%2

Boonville, IN505.8 mi away

3%1

Lumber Bridge (in town)right here

3%1

Raeford10.9 mi away

3%1

Granite Falls146.6 mi away

3%1

Elizabethtown32.3 mi away

3%1

Hope Mills8.4 mi away

3%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%20

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

How far

How far Lumber Bridge commutes

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

34%

29%

32%

34%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lumber Bridge is a job hub

84.55jobs per working resident

A job hub

84.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Lumber Bridge are

3,213 jobs are based in Lumber Bridge. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lumber Bridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lumber Bridge

3,213 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)100%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)0%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Lumber Bridge residents hold

38 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month42%

+9636%

Jobs based in Lumber Bridge, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 3,213. 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.