Work and Jobs in South Gastonia, North Carolina (NC) Detailed Stats
Occupations, Industries, Unemployment, Workers, Commute
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The most common industries in South Gastonia are: Textile mills & textile products (9.5% of civilian employees), Health care (9.1% of civilian employees), Construction (8.1% of civilian employees). 86.7% of workers are employees of private companies, which is 19.1% greater than the rate of 70.1% across the entire state of North Carolina.
Most common industries
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Most common industries | |||
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Industry | All | Males | Females |
Textile mills and textile products | 9.5% (256) | 8.9% (140) | 10.2% (116) |
Health care | 9.1% (245) | 5.9% (92) | 13.5% (153) |
Construction | 8.1% (220) | 11.6% (182) | 3.4% (38) |
Transportation equipment | 7.0% (189) | 7.3% (114) | 6.6% (75) |
Accommodation and food services | 6.1% (164) | 5.2% (81) | 7.3% (83) |
Metal and metal products | 4.1% (111) | 5.9% (92) | 1.7% (19) |
Miscellaneous manufacturing | 3.4% (91) | 2.4% (37) | 4.8% (54) |
Administrative and support and waste management services | 3.3% (89) | 3.9% (61) | 2.5% (28) |
Truck transportation | 3.2% (86) | 5.5% (86) | 0.0% (0) |
Machinery | 2.9% (79) | 4.6% (72) | 0.6% (7) |
Department and other general merchandise stores | 2.8% (76) | 0.3% (5) | 6.3% (71) |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 2.5% (67) | 2.7% (42) | 2.2% (25) |
Educational services | 2.4% (65) | 0.0% (0) | 5.7% (65) |
Public administration | 2.3% (63) | 1.6% (25) | 3.4% (38) |
Plastics and rubber products | 2.2% (59) | 2.7% (42) | 1.5% (17) |
Utilities | 1.9% (51) | 2.5% (39) | 1.1% (12) |
Finance and insurance | 1.9% (50) | 0.7% (11) | 3.4% (39) |
Repair and maintenance | 1.8% (48) | 2.6% (41) | 0.6% (7) |
Professional, scientific, and technical services | 1.7% (45) | 1.1% (17) | 2.5% (28) |
Food and beverage stores | 1.6% (42) | 1.1% (18) | 2.1% (24) |
Computer and electronic products | 1.4% (37) | 0.9% (14) | 2.0% (23) |
Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers | 1.2% (33) | 2.1% (33) | 0.0% (0) |
Paper | 1.2% (32) | 1.6% (25) | 0.6% (7) |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 1.0% (28) | 1.0% (15) | 1.1% (13) |
Printing and related support activities | 1.0% (28) | 1.3% (21) | 0.6% (7) |
Broadcasting and telecommunications | 1.0% (28) | 1.8% (28) | 0.0% (0) |
Social assistance | 1.0% (27) | 0.0% (0) | 2.4% (27) |
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers | 1.0% (26) | 0.7% (11) | 1.3% (15) |
Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.9% (23) | 1.0% (16) | 0.6% (7) |
Pharmacies and drug stores | 0.8% (22) | 0.0% (0) | 1.9% (22) |
Apparel | 0.8% (22) | 0.9% (14) | 0.7% (8) |
Chemicals | 0.8% (21) | 1.3% (21) | 0.0% (0) |
Health and personal care, except drug, stores | 0.7% (18) | 0.5% (8) | 0.9% (10) |
Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores | 0.7% (18) | 0.8% (13) | 0.4% (5) |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 0.6% (17) | 0.6% (10) | 0.6% (7) |
Warehousing and storage | 0.6% (17) | 0.9% (14) | 0.3% (3) |
Real estate and rental and leasing | 0.6% (16) | 1.0% (16) | 0.0% (0) |
Furniture and related product manufacturing | 0.6% (15) | 1.0% (15) | 0.0% (0) |
Other direct selling establishments | 0.6% (15) | 0.5% (8) | 0.6% (7) |
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations | 0.5% (14) | 0.3% (5) | 0.8% (9) |
Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores | 0.4% (12) | 0.0% (0) | 1.1% (12) |
Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers | 0.4% (12) | 0.0% (0) | 1.1% (12) |
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction | 0.4% (10) | 0.6% (10) | 0.0% (0) |
Personal and laundry services | 0.4% (10) | 0.0% (0) | 0.9% (10) |
Vending machine operators | 0.4% (10) | 0.6% (10) | 0.0% (0) |
U. S. Postal service | 0.3% (9) | 0.6% (9) | 0.0% (0) |
Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores | 0.3% (8) | 0.0% (0) | 0.7% (8) |
Radio, TV, and computer stores | 0.3% (8) | 0.5% (8) | 0.0% (0) |
Food | 0.3% (7) | 0.4% (7) | 0.0% (0) |
Office supplies and stationery stores | 0.3% (7) | 0.4% (7) | 0.0% (0) |
Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries | 0.3% (7) | 0.0% (0) | 0.6% (7) |
Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (7) | 0.4% (7) | 0.0% (0) |
Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers | 0.3% (7) | 0.4% (7) | 0.0% (0) |
Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores | 0.3% (7) | 0.0% (0) | 0.6% (7) |
Fuel dealers | 0.2% (6) | 0.4% (6) | 0.0% (0) |
Furniture and home furnishing merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (6) | 0.4% (6) | 0.0% (0) |
Recyclable material merchant wholesalers | 0.2% (5) | 0.3% (5) | 0.0% (0) |
Private households | 0.2% (5) | 0.0% (0) | 0.4% (5) |
Electrical equipment, appliances, and components | 0.1% (4) | 0.0% (0) | 0.4% (4) |
Unemployment in South Gastonia
- Unemployment by race in 2000
- Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic residents
- 5.7%Males
- 7.2%Females
- Unemployment rate for Black residents
- 6.1%Males
- Unemployment rate for two or more race residents
- 6.8%Females
- Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino residents
- 35.1%Females
Time leaving home to go to work
![Time Leaving Home To Go To Work](http://pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/work/time-leaving-to-work-2000-South-Gastonia-NC-small.png 600w,//pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/work/time-leaving-to-work-2000-South-Gastonia-NC.png 800w)
<5am:
South Gastonia: | 4.7% (121) |
North Carolina: | 2.6% (100,622) |
5:30am:
South Gastonia: | 2.3% (60) |
North Carolina: | 2.4% (92,195) |
6am:
South Gastonia: | 5.2% (136) |
North Carolina: | 4.3% (165,079) |
6:30am:
South Gastonia: | 9.6% (250) |
North Carolina: | 9.2% (352,565) |
7am:
South Gastonia: | 8.0% (208) |
North Carolina: | 12.0% (460,363) |
7:30am:
South Gastonia: | 12.7% (329) |
North Carolina: | 15.8% (606,151) |
8am:
South Gastonia: | 17.6% (458) |
North Carolina: | 16.7% (642,254) |
8:30am:
South Gastonia: | 7.2% (187) |
North Carolina: | 10.0% (383,802) |
9am:
South Gastonia: | 3.2% (84) |
North Carolina: | 4.4% (169,515) |
10am:
South Gastonia: | 3.1% (80) |
North Carolina: | 4.4% (167,594) |
11am:
South Gastonia: | 0.2% (5) |
North Carolina: | 1.8% (67,524) |
12pm:
South Gastonia: | 0.4% (10) |
North Carolina: | 0.8% (30,822) |
4pm:
South Gastonia: | 13.5% (351) |
North Carolina: | 6.1% (234,783) |
>4pm:
South Gastonia: | 11.8% (308) |
North Carolina: | 6.8% (261,553) |
Travel time to work
Daytime population change due to commuting: -1,749 (-32.2%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 122 (4.7%)
Workers who live and work in this place: 122 (4.7%)
![Travel time (in minutes) to work](http://pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/work/travel-time-work-2000-South-Gastonia-NC-small.png 600w,//pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/work/travel-time-work-2000-South-Gastonia-NC.png 800w)
![Working at home](http://pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/work/working-at-home-2000-South-Gastonia-NC-small.png 600w,//pics4.city-data.com/sgraphs/work/working-at-home-2000-South-Gastonia-NC.png 800w)
Less than 5 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 1.3% (34) |
North Carolina: | 2.9% (112,337) |
5 to 9 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 10.5% (274) |
North Carolina: | 10.2% (391,604) |
10 to 14 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 16.8% (438) |
North Carolina: | 15.7% (604,412) |
15 to 19 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 20.6% (536) |
North Carolina: | 17.5% (670,644) |
20 to 24 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 17.9% (466) |
North Carolina: | 15.5% (592,941) |
25 to 29 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 1.7% (44) |
North Carolina: | 5.9% (225,523) |
30 to 34 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 12.6% (328) |
North Carolina: | 12.9% (496,268) |
35 to 39 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 3.7% (96) |
North Carolina: | 2.4% (92,870) |
40 to 44 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 3.7% (97) |
North Carolina: | 2.6% (100,049) |
45 to 59 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 6.0% (155) |
North Carolina: | 6.1% (233,614) |
60 to 89 minutes:
South Gastonia: | 3.1% (81) |
North Carolina: | 3.4% (129,556) |
90 or more minutes:
South Gastonia: | 1.5% (38) |
North Carolina: | 2.2% (85,004) |
Means of transportation to work
Drove car alone:
South Gastonia: | 80.7% (2,099) |
North Carolina: | 79.4% (3,046,666) |
Carpooled:
South Gastonia: | 15.6% (406) |
North Carolina: | 14.0% (538,264) |
Subway or elevated:
South Gastonia: | 0.2% (5) |
North Carolina: | 0.0% (526) |
Walked:
South Gastonia: | 0.8% (22) |
North Carolina: | 1.9% (74,147) |
Other means:
South Gastonia: | 2.1% (55) |
North Carolina: | 0.8% (30,492) |
Private vehicle occupancy
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Drove alone:
South Gastonia: | 83.8% (2,099) |
North Carolina: | 85.0% (3,046,666) |
In 2 person carpool:
South Gastonia: | 13.2% (331) |
North Carolina: | 11.2% (400,358) |
In 3 person carpool:
South Gastonia: | 2.4% (59) |
North Carolina: | 2.3% (81,334) |
In 7+ person carpool:
South Gastonia: | 0.6% (16) |
North Carolina: | 0.3% (9,552) |
Class of workers
Employee of private company:
South Gastonia: | 86.7% (2,340) |
North Carolina: | 70.1% (2,681,729) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business:
South Gastonia: | 0.6% (16) |
North Carolina: | 3.2% (122,691) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers:
South Gastonia: | 2.6% (69) |
North Carolina: | 5.5% (208,520) |
Local government workers:
South Gastonia: | 3.3% (89) |
North Carolina: | 5.6% (213,936) |
State government workers:
South Gastonia: | 2.2% (60) |
North Carolina: | 6.8% (261,070) |
Federal government workers:
South Gastonia: | 1.3% (36) |
North Carolina: | 2.1% (81,224) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business:
South Gastonia: | 3.3% (90) |
North Carolina: | 6.4% (245,017) |
Employee of private company - Males:
South Gastonia: | 89.5% (1,401) |
North Carolina: | 72.8% (1,474,251) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Males:
South Gastonia: | 2.0% (31) |
North Carolina: | 3.4% (69,677) |
Local government workers - Males:
South Gastonia: | 3.4% (54) |
North Carolina: | 4.2% (85,279) |
Federal government workers - Males:
South Gastonia: | 0.8% (13) |
North Carolina: | 2.2% (44,612) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Males:
South Gastonia: | 4.3% (67) |
North Carolina: | 7.9% (160,482) |
Employee of private company - Females:
South Gastonia: | 82.8% (939) |
North Carolina: | 67.1% (1,207,478) |
Self-employed in own incorporated business - Females:
South Gastonia: | 1.4% (16) |
North Carolina: | 1.9% (33,395) |
Private not-for-profit wage and salary workers - Females:
South Gastonia: | 3.4% (38) |
North Carolina: | 7.7% (138,843) |
Local government workers - Females:
South Gastonia: | 3.1% (35) |
North Carolina: | 7.1% (128,657) |
State government workers - Females:
South Gastonia: | 5.3% (60) |
North Carolina: | 9.2% (165,561) |
Federal government workers - Females:
South Gastonia: | 2.0% (23) |
North Carolina: | 2.0% (36,612) |
Self-employed workers in own not incorporated business - Females:
South Gastonia: | 2.0% (23) |
North Carolina: | 4.7% (84,535) |