Work & commute · Mountain Home

Work & commute in Mountain Home, NC

Most working residents leave Mountain Home for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Asheville (22%), Hendersonville (12%) and Mills River (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

61 of 1,462 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 1,401 Mountain Home residents head out of town to work, 61 work right here, and 2,098 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mountain Home.

1,401live here, work elsewhere

61live and work here

2,098work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mountain Home goes to work

Asheville14.2 mi away

22%316

Hendersonville4.1 mi away

12%170

Mills River5 mi away

5%71

Charlotte94.9 mi away

5%69

Mountain Home (in town)right here

4%61

Fletcher4.3 mi away

4%55

Brevard15.3 mi away

2%29

Fruitland4.9 mi away

2%22

Raleigh219.2 mi away

1%19

East Flat Rock7.8 mi away

1%19

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%631

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

How far

How far Mountain Home commutes

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

50%

26%

19%

50%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mountain Home is balanced between jobs and homes

1.48jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mountain Home are

2,159 jobs are based in Mountain Home. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mountain Home’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mountain Home

2,159 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Mountain Home residents hold

1,462 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+122%

Jobs based in Mountain Home, 2013 → 2023: 974 → 2,159. 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.