Photo: Efy96001 · Public domainHemingway has 2.6 jobs for every working resident: 490 people commute in to work
3% of workers have no commute at all, where South Carolina as a whole has 12%. Employers in Hemingway report 503 jobs, and 194 of its residents work somewhere. Only 7% work in Hemingway itself; outside it, Georgetown draws the most (8%, 28 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Hemingway
On a workday 181 residents head out to work and 13 work right here.
About 770 people are in Hemingway on a workday afternoon, 67% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Hemingway’s workers come from
Where Hemingway clocks in
6% 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.
What Hemingway’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hemingway, 2013 → 2023: 595 → 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 Hemingway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Hemingway: about 39 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hemingway workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 311 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.
How far it is to work from Hemingway
About 30% 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 Hemingway: questions
What is the median household income in Hemingway?
$52,500 (±$25,402) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hemingway?
7.4%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hemingway?
39 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 Hemingway work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Georgetown (8%, 28 mi), Florence (6%, 36 mi), Johnsonville (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hemingway without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hemingway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hemingway
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.