Cherokee Falls has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 12% across South Carolina. There are 15 jobs in Cherokee Falls, and 35 of its residents work somewhere. Only 3% stay in Cherokee Falls for work; outside it, Gaffney is the main destination (14%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Cherokee Falls: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 34 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 14 people come in from elsewhere.
About 16 people are in Cherokee Falls on a workday afternoon, 56% 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 Cherokee Falls goes to work
Where Cherokee Falls clocks in
14% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Cherokee Falls
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cherokee Falls, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 15. 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 Cherokee Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Cherokee Falls
of Cherokee Falls workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 20 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.
Where in the region Cherokee Falls works
About 21% 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Cherokee Falls workers work outside South Carolina. The job records count 20% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Cherokee Falls: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cherokee Falls?
0.0%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Cherokee Falls work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gaffney (14%, 7 mi), Charlotte (6%, 42 mi), Gastonia (6%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cherokee Falls without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cherokee Falls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cherokee Falls
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.