Photo: Pollinator (Uploads) · CC BY-SA 3.0Bucksport has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where South Carolina as a whole has 12%. Bucksport has 18 jobs; 279 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Bucksport for work; outside it, Conway is the main destination (25%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Bucksport apart
Bucksport is a place people come home to
There are 18 jobs based in Bucksport, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bucksport has about 490 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Bucksport workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 12% across South Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 279 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In and out of Bucksport on a workday
On a workday 278 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 490 people are in Bucksport on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Working from home in Bucksport
of Bucksport workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 248 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across South Carolina: 86% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Out of Bucksport to work: where people go
Where Bucksport clocks in
25% of workers
12% 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.
Jobs in Bucksport: what the 18 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bucksport, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 18. 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 Bucksport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Bucksport
About 24% 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 Bucksport: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bucksport?
15.8%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bucksport work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Conway (25%, 12 mi), Myrtle Beach (12%, 14 mi), Red Hill (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bucksport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bucksport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bucksport
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.