Photo: Bernardgeorgeh · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Edmund earn less than those in 94% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 23.8% of residents (South Carolina 14.1%). Edmund grades C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Hardly any work in Edmund itself; outside it, Columbia draws the most (14%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Edmund
Edmund is a place people come home to
There are 131 jobs based in Edmund, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Edmund has about 850 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Edmund workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 35 minutes each way, against 26 across South Carolina. Over a year that’s about 268 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical 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 438 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Edmund
On income, poverty and job access, Edmund is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Edmund’s grade up (ahead of 67% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($43,494, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.2%) is left out: Edmund’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, Edmund could be anywhere from D to C+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Edmund
On a workday 437 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 130 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Edmund on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.30 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.
How long Edmund spends getting to work: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edmund workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 513 commuters (the 9% 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 trip to work from Edmund ends
Where Edmund clocks in
14% of workers
5% 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.
53% of the jobs in Edmund make or build things
131 jobs are based in Edmund.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edmund, 2013 → 2023: 109 → 131. 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 Edmund’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Edmund, by distance
About 15% 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.
In Edmund, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Edmund is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Edmund near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 562 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). 3.3% of Edmund households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edmund’s commuters take a bus or train.
Edmund places 3,030th of 4,312 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 324 | Cane Savannah SC | 1,551 | $132K | 4.6% | 11.8% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 625 | Shell Point SC | 1,439 | $82K | 3.1% | 6.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,015 | Meggett SC | 1,484 | $98K | 11.0% | 2.0% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,028 | Jackson Township OH | 1,053 | $73K | 17.9% | 0.0% | 2% | C− |
| 3,029 | Palmona Park FL | 1,115 | $44K | 26.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 3,030 | Edmund SC | 1,161 | $43K | 23.8% | 9.2% | <1% | C− |
| 3,031 | Dodson Branch TN | 1,425 | $74K | 26.1% | 10.4% | <1% | C− |
| 3,032 | Marcellus MI | 1,045 | $53K | 16.4% | 6.0% | 9% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Edmund, 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 Edmund: questions
What is the median household income in Edmund?
$43,494 (±$12,639) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edmund?
23.8%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edmund?
35 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edmund work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbia (14%, 21 mi), West Columbia (5%, 10 mi), Lexington (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edmund walkable?
Edmund is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edmund without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edmund, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edmund
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.