Work & commute · St. Pauls

Work & commute in St. Pauls, NC

Most working residents leave St. Pauls for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Lumberton (15%), Fayetteville (13%) and Lumber Bridge (4%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

47 of 653 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 606 St. Pauls residents head out of town to work, 47 work right here, and 1,315 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Pauls.

606live here, work elsewhere

47live and work here

1,315work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Pauls goes to work

Lumberton12.6 mi away

15%98

Fayetteville18.8 mi away

13%83

St. Pauls (in town)right here

7%47

Lumber Bridge7.8 mi away

4%25

Raleigh73.1 mi away

3%21

Charlotte108.5 mi away

3%18

Hope Mills11.1 mi away

3%17

Kinston84.6 mi away

1%9

Durham80.9 mi away

1%9

Red Springs11.7 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%319

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

How far

How far St. Pauls commutes

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

20%

44%

30%

20%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Pauls is a job hub

2.09jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Pauls are

1,362 jobs are based in St. Pauls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Pauls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Pauls

1,362 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month32%

Jobs St. Pauls residents hold

653 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month44%

+32%

Jobs based in St. Pauls, 2013 → 2023: 1,035 → 1,362. 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.