Work & commute · Pleasant Garden

Work & commute in Pleasant Garden, NC

Most working residents leave Pleasant Garden for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Greensboro (41%), High Point (7%) and Charlotte (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 2,020 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 1,987 Pleasant Garden residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 577 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pleasant Garden.

1,987live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

577work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pleasant Garden goes to work

Greensboro10.6 mi away

41%822

High Point13.6 mi away

7%134

Charlotte79.3 mi away

5%110

Winston-Salem30.1 mi away

5%103

Burlington18.2 mi away

3%69

Raleigh62.9 mi away

3%56

Pleasant Garden (in town)right here

2%33

Kernersville21.2 mi away

1%30

Durham47.9 mi away

1%28

Asheboro17.5 mi away

1%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

31%617

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

How far

How far Pleasant Garden commutes

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

36%

33%

11%

20%

36%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pleasant Garden is a commuter town

0.30jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Pleasant Garden are

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

Jobs based in Pleasant Garden

610 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Pleasant Garden residents hold

2,020 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−38%

Jobs based in Pleasant Garden, 2013 → 2023: 979 → 610. 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.