Work & commute · Toast

Work & commute in Toast, NC

Most working residents leave Toast for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Mount Airy (28%), Winston-Salem (10%) and Dobson (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

4 of 574 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 570 Toast residents head out of town to work, 4 work right here, and 151 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Toast.

570live here, work elsewhere

4live and work here

151work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Toast goes to work

Mount Airy1.4 mi away

28%163

Winston-Salem34.3 mi away

10%59

Dobson8.7 mi away

6%32

Charlotte89.6 mi away

4%23

Elkin20 mi away

2%13

High Point50 mi away

2%10

Raleigh120.4 mi away

2%9

Wilkesboro38.8 mi away

1%7

Greensboro53.1 mi away

1%7

Mooresville64 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%245

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

How far

How far Toast commutes

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

49%

19%

24%

49%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Toast is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Toast are

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

Jobs based in Toast

155 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Toast residents hold

574 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month44%

−39%

Jobs based in Toast, 2013 → 2023: 254 → 155. 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.