Work & commute · Spout Springs

Work & commute in Spout Springs, NC

Most working residents leave Spout Springs for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Fayetteville (16%), Sanford (8%) and Raleigh (8%). Half commute less than 30 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

71 of 3,364 working residents

Typical commute

30 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,293 Spout Springs residents head out of town to work, 71 work right here, and 1,202 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spout Springs.

3,293live here, work elsewhere

71live and work here

1,202work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spout Springs goes to work

Fayetteville13.9 mi away

16%538

Sanford16.9 mi away

8%262

Raleigh44.8 mi away

8%260

Charlotte100.8 mi away

4%138

Durham49.4 mi away

4%124

Cary37.3 mi away

2%73

Spout Springs (in town)right here

2%71

Lillington16.3 mi away

2%64

Pinehurst24.6 mi away

2%62

Spring Lake6.8 mi away

2%59

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%1,713

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

How far

How far Spout Springs commutes

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

11%

36%

27%

26%

11%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

27%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spout Springs is a commuter town

0.38jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Spout Springs are

1,273 jobs are based in Spout Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spout Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spout Springs

1,273 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities39%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less36%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month22%

Jobs Spout Springs residents hold

3,364 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+137%

Jobs based in Spout Springs, 2013 → 2023: 537 → 1,273. 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.