Work & commute · Porters Neck

Work & commute in Porters Neck, NC

Most working residents leave Porters Neck for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Wilmington (41%), Murraysville (4%) and Charlotte (3%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

176 of 2,736 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

34%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,560 Porters Neck residents head out of town to work, 176 work right here, and 2,575 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Porters Neck.

2,560live here, work elsewhere

176live and work here

2,575work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Porters Neck goes to work

Wilmington8.8 mi away

41%1,110

Porters Neck (in town)right here

6%176

Murraysville4.1 mi away

4%97

Charlotte184.9 mi away

3%81

Raleigh117.2 mi away

3%79

Kings Grant5.5 mi away

2%68

Durham132.7 mi away

1%38

Wrightsville Beach5.8 mi away

1%33

Northchase6.2 mi away

1%33

Fayetteville87.4 mi away

1%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%993

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

How far

How far Porters Neck commutes

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

45%

24%

28%

45%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Porters Neck is balanced between jobs and homes

1.01jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.01 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Porters Neck are

2,751 jobs are based in Porters Neck. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Porters Neck’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Porters Neck

2,751 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Porters Neck residents hold

2,736 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+72%

Jobs based in Porters Neck, 2013 → 2023: 1,604 → 2,751. 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.