Golightly-Dean House · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Camp Croft’s household incomes are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Camp Croft are D for jobs and income and B for walkability. 29.0% of residents live below the poverty line, against 14.1% across South Carolina. Only 3% stay in Camp Croft for work; outside it, Spartanburg is the main destination (20%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Camp Croft, in a few figures
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Camp Croft are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Camp Croft has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Camp Croft went from 553 in 2013 to 755 in 2023, +37%. The jobs ↓
Camp Croft makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Camp Croft are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Camp Croft residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
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 957 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Camp Croft
On income, poverty and job access, Camp Croft is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Camp Croft’s grade up (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (11.1%) is left out: Camp Croft’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Camp Croft could be anywhere from D to C+.
Goods, not services: 35% of the jobs in Camp Croft
755 jobs are based in Camp Croft.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Camp Croft, 2013 → 2023: 553 → 755. 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 Camp Croft’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Camp Croft, and who commutes in
On a workday 927 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 725 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Camp Croft on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
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 Camp Croft goes to work
Where Camp Croft clocks in
20% of workers
5% 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.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of South Carolina
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Camp Croft workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 645 commuters (the 5% 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.
Camp Croft’s commute, mile by mile
About 16% 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.
Most trips from Camp Croft start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Camp Croft is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.4% across South Carolina, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 676 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.5% of Camp Croft households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 7% of Camp Croft’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Camp Croft ranks: 4,484th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 267 | Pimlico SC | 1,765 | $137K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 272 | Sullivan's Island SC | 1,961 | $193K | 8.8% | 1.5% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 374 | Folly Beach SC | 2,081 | $102K | 4.0% | 2.1% | 13% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,482 | Fairfield Township OH | 1,500 | $49K | 19.4% | 1.6% | 0% | D |
| 4,483 | St. Clair Township PA | 1,302 | $55K | 16.6% | 10.7% | 2% | D |
| 4,484 | Camp Croft SC | 1,586 | $44K | 29.0% | 11.1% | 3% | D |
| 4,485 | Milan IN | 1,838 | $59K | 15.0% | 3.8% | 7% | D |
| 4,486 | Malta MT | 1,846 | $54K | 9.9% | 0.0% | 34% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Camp Croft, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
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 Camp Croft: questions
What is the median household income in Camp Croft?
$44,219 (±$12,329) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Camp Croft?
29.0%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Camp Croft?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Camp Croft work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spartanburg (20%, 4 mi), Greenville (5%, 29 mi), Southern Shops (3%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Camp Croft walkable?
Camp Croft is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Camp Croft without a car?
7% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Camp Croft, from the people who make the trip.
More of Camp Croft
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.