Gray Court-Owings School · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Gray Court
Working residents average 24 minutes each way, next to 26 for South Carolina and 26 for the U.S. Only 2% work in Gray Court; the top destination outside it is Greenville (13%, 21 miles). 5% of workers work from home (South Carolina 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Gray Court quiets down on a workday
On a workday 357 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 270 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Gray Court on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 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.
The towns that employ Gray Court’s residents
Where Gray Court clocks in
13% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Making and building: 90% of jobs based in Gray Court
277 jobs are based in Gray Court.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gray Court, 2013 → 2023: 218 → 277. 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 Gray Court’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Gray Court: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gray Court workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 291 commuters (the 5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Gray Court
About 21% 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.
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 Gray Court: questions
What is the median household income in Gray Court?
$57,500 (±$26,430) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gray Court?
19.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gray Court?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gray Court work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (13%, 21 mi), Fountain Inn (3%, 8 mi), Columbia (3%, 80 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gray Court 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 Gray Court, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gray Court
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.