Work & commute · Sea Breeze

Work & commute in Sea Breeze, NC

Most working residents leave Sea Breeze for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Wilmington (41%), Carolina Beach (7%) and Myrtle Grove (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 933 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 920 Sea Breeze residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 122 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sea Breeze.

920live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

122work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sea Breeze goes to work

Wilmington9.9 mi away

41%380

Carolina Beach1.7 mi away

7%61

Myrtle Grove4.2 mi away

5%42

Raleigh129.1 mi away

4%34

Charlotte184.8 mi away

2%23

Kings Grant13.9 mi away

2%16

Sea Breeze (in town)right here

1%13

Murraysville15.8 mi away

1%13

Leland13.4 mi away

1%12

Durham143.8 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%329

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

How far

How far Sea Breeze commutes

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

37%

35%

26%

37%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sea Breeze is a commuter town

0.14jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sea Breeze are

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

Jobs based in Sea Breeze

135 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Sea Breeze residents hold

933 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+96%

Jobs based in Sea Breeze, 2013 → 2023: 69 → 135. 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.