Orange Grove · Photo: South Carolina Department of Archives and History · CC0Household incomes in Dalzell trail those of 91% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 15.3% of residents; South Carolina has 14.1%. The two grades for Dalzell are D for jobs and income and D for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where South Carolina as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dalzell and work: the main findings
Dalzell and Sumter trade workers both ways
Sumter is the top workplace for Dalzell residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Dalzell come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Dalzell is a place people come home to
There are 230 jobs based in Dalzell, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Dalzell has about 2,100 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Dalzell workers work from home
Only 1% 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.
How Dalzell earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Dalzell’s grade up (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (10.8%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dalzell could be anywhere from D to B+.
28% of working residents work in Sumter
Where Dalzell clocks in
28% of workers
8% 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.
Who leaves Dalzell for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,103 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 222 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Dalzell on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.21 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Dalzell
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dalzell workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,374 commuters (the 1% 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.
Jobs in Dalzell: what the 230 are
230 jobs are based in Dalzell.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dalzell, 2013 → 2023: 180 → 230. 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 Dalzell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Dalzell, by distance
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.
Dalzell is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dalzell is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns, #165 of 169 in South Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.4% across South Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,381 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.2% of Dalzell households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dalzell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000, Dalzell ranks 4,024th of 4,618 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | India Hook SC | 3,960 | $107K | 1.2% | 0.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 478 | Golden Grove SC | 2,913 | $73K | 3.1% | 1.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 637 | Keowee Key SC | 3,351 | $125K | 2.1% | 2.6% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,022 | Grant Township MI | 3,034 | $58K | 13.9% | 10.3% | 2% | D |
| 4,023 | New Berlin NY | 2,482 | $62K | 16.2% | 6.8% | 7% | D |
| 4,024 | Dalzell SC | 2,946 | $47K | 15.3% | 10.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,025 | Horse Pasture VA | 2,236 | $54K | 22.7% | 2.5% | 1% | D |
| 4,026 | Fairfield Bay AR | 2,198 | $57K | 11.4% | 4.0% | 20% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Dalzell, 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 Dalzell: questions
What is the median household income in Dalzell?
$47,354 (±$16,768) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dalzell?
15.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dalzell?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dalzell work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sumter (28%, 6 mi), Columbia (8%, 27 mi), North Charleston (2%, 79 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dalzell walkable?
Dalzell is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dalzell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dalzell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dalzell
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.