Work & commute · Royal Pines

Work & commute in Royal Pines, NC

Most working residents leave Royal Pines for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Asheville (43%), Charlotte (5%) and Hendersonville (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18 of 1,800 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

29%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,782 Royal Pines residents head out of town to work, 18 work right here, and 245 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Royal Pines.

1,782live here, work elsewhere

18live and work here

245work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Royal Pines goes to work

Asheville7 mi away

43%773

Charlotte96 mi away

5%82

Hendersonville11 mi away

4%70

Fletcher3.2 mi away

3%54

Mills River8.3 mi away

2%31

Black Mountain13.7 mi away

2%28

Royal Pines (in town)right here

1%18

Raleigh218.1 mi away

1%17

Biltmore Forest4.4 mi away

1%16

Greensboro156 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%697

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

How far

How far Royal Pines commutes

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

65%

14%

18%

65%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Royal Pines is a commuter town

0.15jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Royal Pines are

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

Jobs based in Royal Pines

263 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)90%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Royal Pines residents hold

1,800 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+8%

Jobs based in Royal Pines, 2013 → 2023: 244 → 263. 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.