Work & commute · Red Springs

Work & commute in Red Springs, NC

Most working residents leave Red Springs for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Lumberton (13%), Fayetteville (9%) and Lumber Bridge (5%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

99 of 1,097 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 998 Red Springs residents head out of town to work, 99 work right here, and 1,224 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Red Springs.

998live here, work elsewhere

99live and work here

1,224work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Red Springs goes to work

Lumberton15.3 mi away

13%139

Fayetteville22.4 mi away

9%104

Red Springs (in town)right here

9%99

Lumber Bridge8.5 mi away

5%56

Raeford12.4 mi away

4%41

Raleigh77.2 mi away

3%32

Pembroke9 mi away

3%31

Laurinburg17 mi away

3%31

Charlotte97.4 mi away

2%25

St. Pauls11.7 mi away

1%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%528

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

How far

How far Red Springs commutes

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

25%

43%

23%

25%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Red Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.21jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.21 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Red Springs are

1,323 jobs are based in Red Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Red Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Red Springs

1,323 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Red Springs residents hold

1,097 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month41%

−10%

Jobs based in Red Springs, 2013 → 2023: 1,475 → 1,323. 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.