Tabernacle Cemetery · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Cokesbury has 3.7 jobs for every working resident: 349 people commute in to work
Employers in Cokesbury report 351 jobs; 95 of its residents have a job. Only 2% stay in Cokesbury for work; outside it, Greenwood is the main destination (24%, 7 miles). 0% of workers work from home (South Carolina 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Cokesbury
On a workday 93 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 520 people are in Cokesbury on a workday afternoon, 96% more 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 Cokesbury’s workforce comes from
Where Cokesbury clocks in
24% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
In Cokesbury, 95% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Cokesbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Cokesbury
of Cokesbury workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 120 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.
The commute from Cokesbury, by distance
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 Cokesbury: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cokesbury?
0.0%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Cokesbury work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (24%, 7 mi), Abbeville (3%, 12 mi), West Columbia (2%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cokesbury 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 Cokesbury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cokesbury
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.