Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0Hartsville draws 6,058 commuters a day, with 2.2 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Hartsville report 6,872 jobs, against 3,112 working residents. The two grades for Hartsville are D for jobs and income and A for walkability. Measured by household income, Hartsville is behind 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hartsville stands out on work
Hartsville draws workers from far and wide
The 6,872 jobs in Hartsville are filled from a wide area. Hartsville’s own residents hold 12% and the ten next-biggest home towns 13%; the other 75% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Hartsville is where the jobs are
Hartsville has 6,872 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 11,000 people are in town, 51% more than the 7,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
No single place dominates Hartsville’s commute
The biggest draw, Florence, gets only 8% of working residents, and 52% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Hartsville residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
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.
What’s behind Hartsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hartsville is better than 14% of U.S. towns, #131 of 168 in South Carolina. Job access by car holds Hartsville’s grade up (ahead of 50% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($49,272, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hartsville could be anywhere from D to C.
Commuting in to Hartsville: where workers come from
Where Hartsville clocks in
8% of workers
5% 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.
Who works in Hartsville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,298 residents head out to work and 814 work right here.
About 11,000 people are in Hartsville on a workday afternoon, 51% more 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.
The kinds of work in Hartsville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hartsville, 2014 → 2024: 6,755 → 6,872. 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 Hartsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes to work from Hartsville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hartsville workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,902 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.
Miles to work from Hartsville
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Hartsville, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hartsville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns, #9 of 169 in South Carolina. Both inputs place Hartsville 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 3,050 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). 15.8% of Hartsville households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Hartsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Hartsville compares with U.S. towns of 5,200 to 10,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 223 | Lake Murray of Richland SC | 7,023 | $119K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 945 | Blythewood SC | 7,233 | $94K | 4.8% | 5.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,068 | Lyman SC | 7,103 | $76K | 6.1% | 3.4% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,791 | Harrison Township IN | 6,294 | $52K | 22.1% | 5.1% | 10% | D |
| 2,792 | Cobleskill NY | 6,484 | $55K | 15.1% | 6.2% | 26% | D |
| 2,793 | Hartsville SC | 7,374 | $49K | 19.6% | 7.2% | 26% | D |
| 2,794 | Amory MS | 6,386 | $53K | 16.4% | 7.0% | 23% | D |
| 2,795 | Fredonia NY | 9,283 | $50K | 25.2% | 5.1% | 19% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,083 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Hartsville, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Next door to Hartsville
The biggest share goes to North Hartsville (1%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hartsville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartsville | – | D | A | 23 min | $49,272 |
| North Hartsville | 1% | C | D | 17 min | $59,744 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hartsville’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 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 Hartsville: questions
What is the median household income in Hartsville?
$49,272 (±$3,422) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hartsville?
19.6%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hartsville?
23 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 Hartsville work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (8%, 21 mi), Darlington (5%, 13 mi), Columbia (3%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hartsville walkable?
Hartsville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hartsville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hartsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hartsville
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.