Work & commute · Whitakers

Work & commute in Whitakers, NC

Most working residents leave Whitakers for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Rocky Mount (31%), Raleigh (8%) and Tarboro (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 287 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 287 Whitakers residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Whitakers.

287live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

89work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Whitakers goes to work

Rocky Mount10.9 mi away

31%88

Raleigh55.2 mi away

8%23

Tarboro16.4 mi away

6%17

Wilson28.6 mi away

5%15

Nashville16.6 mi away

3%8

Charlotte185.7 mi away

2%7

Durham66.8 mi away

2%5

Roanoke Rapids23.8 mi away

1%4

Greenville39.9 mi away

1%4

Dortches10.3 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

39%113

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

How far

How far Whitakers commutes

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

23%

33%

14%

30%

23%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Whitakers is a commuter town

0.31jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Whitakers are

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

Jobs based in Whitakers

89 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Whitakers residents hold

287 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−93%

Jobs based in Whitakers, 2013 → 2023: 1,327 → 89. 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.