Work & commute · Whispering Pines

Work & commute in Whispering Pines, NC

Most working residents leave Whispering Pines for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Southern Pines (15%), Pinehurst (15%) and Fayetteville (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

40 of 1,549 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,509 Whispering Pines residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 337 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Whispering Pines.

1,509live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

337work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Whispering Pines goes to work

Southern Pines4 mi away

15%236

Pinehurst6.8 mi away

15%233

Fayetteville25.2 mi away

6%88

Charlotte82.4 mi away

5%71

Raleigh57.6 mi away

4%66

Aberdeen8.6 mi away

3%51

Whispering Pines (in town)right here

3%40

Sanford20.2 mi away

2%38

Carthage5.9 mi away

2%37

Greensboro63.8 mi away

2%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%664

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

How far

How far Whispering Pines commutes

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

46%

14%

31%

46%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Whispering Pines is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Whispering Pines are

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

Jobs based in Whispering Pines

377 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Whispering Pines residents hold

1,549 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+28%

Jobs based in Whispering Pines, 2013 → 2023: 295 → 377. 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.