Sylvania · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Bradley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Hardly any work in Bradley itself; outside it, Greenwood draws the most (22%, 12 miles). 2 jobs are based in Bradley; 72 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 100% of workers; South Carolina has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Bradley
On a workday 72 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 20 people are in Bradley on a workday afternoon, 78% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Bradley work
Where Bradley clocks in
22% of workers
4% of workers
3% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bradley, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 2. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bradley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bradley
of Bradley workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Bradley
About 38% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bradley: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bradley?
33.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bradley work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (22%, 12 mi), Columbia (4%, 77 mi), Atlanta (3%, 127 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bradley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bradley
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.