Fort Lawn has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, where South Carolina as a whole has 12%. There are 88 jobs in Fort Lawn, and 457 of its residents work somewhere. Fort Lawn grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Fort Lawn, in brief
Fort Lawn is a place people come home to
There are 88 jobs based in Fort Lawn, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Fort Lawn has about 640 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Fort Lawn workers work from home
Only 3% 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 457 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Fort Lawn
On income, poverty and job access, Fort Lawn is better than 35% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Fort Lawn’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($60,288, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (10.9%) is left out: Fort Lawn’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, Fort Lawn could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Fort Lawn
On a workday 455 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 86 people come in from elsewhere.
About 640 people are in Fort Lawn on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 30 minutes to work from Fort Lawn
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Lawn workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 503 commuters (the 3% 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.
21% of working residents work in Rock Hill
Where Fort Lawn clocks in
21% of workers
13% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Fort Lawn
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Lawn, 2014 → 2024: 59 → 88. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fort Lawn’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Fort Lawn
About 18% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Fort Lawn: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fort Lawn is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Fort Lawn 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 517 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). 5.2% of Fort Lawn households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fort Lawn’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Fort Lawn ranks 1,554th 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 872 | Edisto Beach SC | 1,071 | $86K | 2.5% | 5.8% | 9% | 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,552 | Osceola Mills PA | 1,007 | $68K | 10.1% | 7.1% | 1% | C |
| 1,553 | Duncansville PA | 1,207 | $55K | 11.5% | 11.3% | 1% | C |
| 1,554 | Fort Lawn SC | 1,009 | $60K | 13.2% | 10.9% | <1% | C |
| 1,555 | Wells Township PA | 1,147 | $60K | 6.6% | 2.5% | 1% | C |
| 1,556 | Cascade Locks OR | 1,367 | $70K | 8.2% | 5.6% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Fort Lawn, 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 2024, 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 Fort Lawn: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Lawn?
$60,288 (±$13,992) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Lawn?
13.2%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Lawn?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Lawn work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rock Hill (21%, 18 mi), Charlotte (13%, 35 mi), Lancaster (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Fort Lawn walkable?
Fort Lawn is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fort Lawn 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 Fort Lawn, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Lawn
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.