Work & commute · Pinetops

Work & commute in Pinetops, NC

Most working residents leave Pinetops for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Tarboro (11%), Rocky Mount (11%) and Greenville (10%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

23 of 452 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 429 Pinetops residents head out of town to work, 23 work right here, and 261 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pinetops.

429live here, work elsewhere

23live and work here

261work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pinetops goes to work

Tarboro9.1 mi away

11%51

Rocky Mount15.5 mi away

11%51

Greenville20 mi away

10%44

Raleigh56.3 mi away

9%42

Wilson16.9 mi away

7%32

Pinetops (in town)right here

5%23

Charlotte184.1 mi away

3%12

Fayetteville89.7 mi away

2%7

Goldsboro34.2 mi away

1%5

Nashville21.7 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%181

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

How far

How far Pinetops commutes

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

22%

39%

33%

22%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pinetops is a commuter town

0.63jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.63 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Pinetops are

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

Jobs based in Pinetops

284 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Pinetops residents hold

452 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−36%

Jobs based in Pinetops, 2013 → 2023: 444 → 284. 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.