Work & commute · Seven Lakes

Work & commute in Seven Lakes, NC

Most working residents leave Seven Lakes for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Pinehurst (15%), Southern Pines (9%) and Raleigh (5%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

83 of 1,418 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

40 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,335 Seven Lakes residents head out of town to work, 83 work right here, and 1,278 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Seven Lakes.

1,335live here, work elsewhere

83live and work here

1,278work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Seven Lakes goes to work

Pinehurst8.3 mi away

15%208

Southern Pines11.4 mi away

9%125

Seven Lakes (in town)right here

6%83

Raleigh66 mi away

5%73

Aberdeen12.3 mi away

4%63

Charlotte70.4 mi away

4%54

Fayetteville36.8 mi away

3%46

Carthage10.6 mi away

2%33

Greensboro58.9 mi away

2%28

Sanford28 mi away

2%22

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%683

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

How far

How far Seven Lakes commutes

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

28%

20%

14%

37%

28%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Seven Lakes is balanced between jobs and homes

0.96jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Seven Lakes are

1,361 jobs are based in Seven Lakes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Seven Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Seven Lakes

1,361 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Seven Lakes residents hold

1,418 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+31%

Jobs based in Seven Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 1,041 → 1,361. 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.