Work & commute · Welcome

Work & commute in Welcome, NC

Most working residents leave Welcome for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Winston-Salem (22%), Lexington (7%) and High Point (6%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

124 of 1,860 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 1,736 Welcome residents head out of town to work, 124 work right here, and 3,485 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Welcome.

1,736live here, work elsewhere

124live and work here

3,485work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Welcome goes to work

Winston-Salem13.6 mi away

22%402

Lexington7.6 mi away

7%132

Welcome (in town)right here

7%124

High Point15.8 mi away

6%113

Greensboro27.4 mi away

6%109

Charlotte58.1 mi away

5%102

Thomasville9.9 mi away

3%62

Kernersville16.8 mi away

2%40

Raleigh90.5 mi away

2%36

Salisbury21.3 mi away

2%33

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%707

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

How far

How far Welcome commutes

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

28%

43%

19%

28%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Welcome is a job hub

1.94jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Welcome are

3,609 jobs are based in Welcome. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Welcome’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Welcome

3,609 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)66%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)17%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Welcome residents hold

1,860 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+11%

Jobs based in Welcome, 2013 → 2023: 3,255 → 3,609. 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.