Easley Mill · Photo: Upstateherd · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Easley (3.2%) is lower than in 66% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Easley for work; outside it, Greenville is the main destination (19%, 13 miles). For jobs and income Easley is better than 52% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+). The trip to work takes 27 minutes on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Easley stands out on work
Easley’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Easley’s grade up (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Easley could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Where Easley goes to work
Where Easley clocks in
19% 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 works in Easley, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 9,533 residents head out to work, 1,089 work right here, and 7,525 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 (0.81 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.
What Easley’s employers do
8,614 jobs are based in Easley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Easley, 2013 → 2023: 9,316 → 8,614. 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 Easley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Easley’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Easley workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,201 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far Easley’s workers travel
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.
In Easley, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% of 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 11,550 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). 9.0% of Easley households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Easley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,509 U.S. towns of 19,000 to 37,000, Easley comes 995th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
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| 315 | Bluffton SC | 36,807 | $111K | 4.3% | 2.2% | 19% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 625 | Hanahan SC | 22,415 | $88K | 11.7% | 2.5% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 662 | Simpsonville SC | 28,459 | $82K | 6.1% | 4.1% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 993 | Suisun City CA | 29,454 | $95K | 8.4% | 8.4% | 3% | B− |
| 994 | Venice FL | 30,477 | $77K | 9.2% | 4.8% | 17% | B− |
| 995 | Easley SC | 27,319 | $66K | 13.9% | 3.2% | 10% | B− |
| 996 | Fredericksburg VA | 30,393 | $86K | 13.2% | 5.1% | 21% | B− |
| 997 | Clay Township IN | 34,221 | $72K | 9.8% | 5.4% | 19% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,509 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Easley, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Next door to Easley
The biggest share goes to Powdersville (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Easley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easley | – | B− | C+ | 27 min | $66,299 |
| Arial | under 2% | B+ | C | 28 min | $54,286 |
| Powdersville | 3% | A− | C+ | 36 min | $84,910 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Easley’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Easley: questions
What is the median household income in Easley?
$66,299 (±$8,327) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Easley?
13.9%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Easley?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Easley work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (19%, 13 mi), Powdersville (3%, 6 mi), Clemson (2%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Easley walkable?
Easley is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Easley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Easley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Easley
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.