Work & commute · Mount Pleasant

Work & commute in Mount Pleasant, NC

Most working residents leave Mount Pleasant for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Charlotte (24%), Concord (24%) and Albemarle (4%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

24 of 879 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 855 Mount Pleasant residents head out of town to work, 24 work right here, and 682 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Pleasant.

855live here, work elsewhere

24live and work here

682work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Pleasant goes to work

Charlotte25.9 mi away

24%208

Concord11.5 mi away

24%207

Albemarle13.8 mi away

4%31

Salisbury19.1 mi away

4%31

Kannapolis13.5 mi away

3%26

Mount Pleasant (in town)right here

3%24

Greensboro59.2 mi away

2%16

Raleigh105 mi away

2%15

Mooresville25.9 mi away

2%14

Harrisburg13.5 mi away

1%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%295

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

How far

How far Mount Pleasant commutes

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

20%

40%

26%

15%

20%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

26%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Pleasant is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Pleasant are

706 jobs are based in Mount Pleasant. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mount Pleasant’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mount Pleasant

706 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Mount Pleasant residents hold

879 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+27%

Jobs based in Mount Pleasant, 2013 → 2023: 555 → 706. 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.