Photo: Sycondavey at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5Households in Due West have lower incomes than those in 83% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 17.6%, where South Carolina as a whole has 14.1%. For jobs and income Due West is better than 15% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (B+). Only 6% work in Due West; the top destination outside it is Greenwood (10%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Due West: the figures worth knowing
Many jobs in Due West pay little
36% of the jobs based in Due West pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 33% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Due West
56% of Due West residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 32% of the jobs based in Due West pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Due West are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across South Carolina. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical South Carolina worker. 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; with 459 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Due West
Job access by car holds Due West’s grade up (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($53,603, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (22.6%) is left out: Due West’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, Due West could be anywhere from D to C.
Most jobs in Due West are in services
431 jobs are based in Due West.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Due West, 2013 → 2023: 527 → 431. 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 Due West’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Due West: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Due West workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 356 commuters (the 6% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 431 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 403 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.94 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 Due West goes to work
Where Due West clocks in
10% of workers
7% 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.
How far Due West goes to work
About 24% 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.
Driving is how Due West gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 31.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.4% across South Carolina, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 377 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). 11.7% of Due West households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Due West’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Due West is 4,057th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 209 | Pimlico SC | 1,765 | $137K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 421 | Cane Savannah SC | 1,551 | $132K | 4.6% | 11.8% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 818 | Shell Point SC | 1,439 | $82K | 3.1% | 6.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,055 | Satanta KS | 1,046 | $51K | 9.6% | 3.4% | 5% | D |
| 4,056 | Sykesville PA | 1,078 | $45K | 14.1% | 3.8% | 5% | D |
| 4,057 | Due West SC | 1,299 | $54K | 17.6% | 22.6% | 6% | D |
| 4,058 | Millbrook Township MI | 1,111 | $71K | 17.8% | 3.3% | 3% | D |
| 4,059 | Orange NY | 1,347 | $60K | 12.7% | 1.8% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Due West, 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 Due West: questions
What is the median household income in Due West?
$53,603 (±$7,863) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Due West?
17.6%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Due West?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Due West work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (10%, 16 mi), Anderson (7%, 20 mi), Abbeville (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Due West walkable?
Due West is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 32% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Due West without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Due West, from the people who make the trip.
More of Due West
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.