Photo: Rbwsc · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Edisto Beach earn more than those in 63% of U.S. towns
28% of workers have no commute at all (South Carolina 12%). 2.5% of residents are in poverty, against 14.1% across South Carolina. For jobs and income Edisto Beach is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Edisto Beach in brief
Edisto Beach is where the jobs are
Edisto Beach has 503 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Edisto Beach’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Edisto Beach is Charleston, 30 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (41) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Home offices are common in Edisto Beach
29% of Edisto Beach workers work from home, against 12% across South Carolina. 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 327 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Edisto Beach’s grade
The poverty rate holds Edisto Beach’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Edisto Beach’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, Edisto Beach could be anywhere from C+ to B.
A workday in Edisto Beach: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 301 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 477 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Edisto Beach on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Half of Edisto Beach commutes less than 34 miles
About 28% 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.
Edisto Beach’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edisto Beach workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 309 commuters (the 28% 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.
Where the people who work in Edisto Beach live
Where Edisto Beach clocks in
13% of workers
10% of workers
5% 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.
Edisto Beach is a services town
503 jobs are based in Edisto Beach.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edisto Beach, 2013 → 2023: 379 → 503. 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 Edisto Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Edisto Beach commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 432 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). 4.6% of Edisto Beach households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edisto Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
Edisto Beach next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 872nd of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 870 | Pulaski Township PA | 1,261 | $55K | 7.1% | 6.0% | 2% | B |
| 871 | Ripon WI | 1,320 | $92K | 13.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| 872 | Edisto Beach SC | 1,071 | $86K | 2.5% | 5.8% | 8% | B |
| 873 | Anderson Township IN | 1,227 | $92K | 6.2% | 3.3% | 2% | B |
| 874 | Chittenden VT | 1,215 | $106K | 6.6% | 1.2% | 10% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 920 | Murphys Estates SC | 1,064 | $90K | 14.6% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 927 | Warrenville SC | 1,042 | $53K | 6.0% | 4.1% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 969 | Van Wyck SC | 1,065 | $38K | 5.4% | 9.5% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Edisto Beach, 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 Edisto Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Edisto Beach?
$85,521 (±$14,298) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edisto Beach?
2.5%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edisto Beach?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edisto Beach work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charleston (13%, 30 mi), North Charleston (10%, 32 mi), Walterboro (5%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edisto Beach walkable?
Edisto Beach is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edisto Beach without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edisto Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edisto Beach
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.