Work & commute · Spring Hope

Work & commute in Spring Hope, NC

Most working residents leave Spring Hope for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Rocky Mount (12%), Raleigh (9%) and Wilson (8%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 435 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 418 Spring Hope residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 410 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Spring Hope.

418live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

410work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Spring Hope goes to work

Rocky Mount16.9 mi away

12%52

Raleigh30.8 mi away

9%38

Wilson17.8 mi away

8%35

Greenville47.6 mi away

5%23

Spring Hope (in town)right here

4%17

Nashville8.7 mi away

4%16

Charlotte161.2 mi away

3%12

Wake Forest22.6 mi away

2%10

Durham44.2 mi away

2%9

Cary41.6 mi away

2%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%215

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

How far

How far Spring Hope commutes

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

14%

37%

32%

18%

14%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

32%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Spring Hope is balanced between jobs and homes

0.98jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Spring Hope are

427 jobs are based in Spring Hope. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Spring Hope’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Spring Hope

427 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Spring Hope residents hold

435 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−25%

Jobs based in Spring Hope, 2013 → 2023: 568 → 427. 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.