Work & commute · Pine Knoll Shores

Work & commute in Pine Knoll Shores, NC

Most working residents leave Pine Knoll Shores for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Morehead City (16%), Atlantic Beach (7%) and Beaufort (6%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 383 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

26%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 362 Pine Knoll Shores residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 290 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pine Knoll Shores.

362live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

290work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pine Knoll Shores goes to work

Morehead City6 mi away

16%61

Atlantic Beach5.3 mi away

7%28

Beaufort10.4 mi away

6%23

Pine Knoll Shores (in town)right here

5%21

Greenville69.3 mi away

5%20

Raleigh128.6 mi away

4%15

New Bern30.5 mi away

4%14

Jacksonville31.8 mi away

3%11

Wilmington68.7 mi away

3%11

Emerald Isle11.4 mi away

3%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%169

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

How far

How far Pine Knoll Shores commutes

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

38%

10%

43%

38%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

43%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pine Knoll Shores is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pine Knoll Shores are

311 jobs are based in Pine Knoll Shores. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pine Knoll Shores’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pine Knoll Shores

311 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Pine Knoll Shores residents hold

383 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+2%

Jobs based in Pine Knoll Shores, 2013 → 2023: 306 → 311. 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.