Cope Depot · Photo: Race2Beach - Sara Dean · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Cope commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Cope; the top destination outside it is Orangeburg (17%, 11 miles). Cope has 11 jobs, against 23 working residents. Home is the office for 50% 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 flow of workers through Cope
On a workday 23 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 11 people come in from elsewhere.
About 24 people are in Cope on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 Cope’s working residents head each day
Where Cope clocks in
17% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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 Cope, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cope, 2013 → 2023: 57 → 11. 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 Cope’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Cope
of Cope workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1 commuters (the 50% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cope
About 23% 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 Cope: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cope?
66.7%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Cope work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orangeburg (17%, 11 mi), Columbia (9%, 46 mi), Kingstree (4%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cope 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 Cope, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cope
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.