Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Inman are lower than in 68% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 15.4% of residents, against 14.1% across South Carolina. For jobs and income Inman is better than 46% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (C+). Only 3% work in Inman itself; outside it, Spartanburg draws the most (14%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Inman apart on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Inman
Job access by car holds Inman’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Inman could be anywhere from D to A−.
Getting to work from Inman takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Inman workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,440 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who works in Inman, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,396 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 971 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,000 people are in Inman on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.70 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.
The towns that employ Inman’s residents
Where Inman clocks in
14% of workers
7% 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.
Goods jobs make up 30% of work in Inman
1,007 jobs are based in Inman.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Inman, 2013 → 2023: 1,091 → 1,007. 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 Inman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Inman commutes
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.
Inman is a driving town
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.4% across South Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,504 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). 8.4% of Inman households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Inman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Inman places 2,448th of 4,535 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Isle of Palms SC | 4,377 | $157K | 2.5% | 1.3% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | India Hook SC | 3,960 | $107K | 1.2% | 0.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 530 | Golden Grove SC | 2,913 | $73K | 3.1% | 1.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,446 | Annandale MN | 3,801 | $66K | 8.9% | 3.9% | 17% | B− |
| 2,447 | Ashley PA | 2,627 | $57K | 23.9% | 1.8% | 1% | B− |
| 2,448 | Inman SC | 3,458 | $64K | 15.4% | 3.5% | 3% | B− |
| 2,449 | Benton ME | 2,821 | $61K | 10.0% | 1.7% | 4% | B− |
| 2,450 | Northampton NY | 2,482 | $72K | 6.4% | 3.4% | 14% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Inman, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Around Inman: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Inman workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inman | – | B− | C+ | 23 min | $63,599 |
| Inman Mills | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Inman Mills: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Inman’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 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 Inman: questions
What is the median household income in Inman?
$63,599 (±$22,192) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Inman?
15.4%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Inman?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Inman work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spartanburg (14%, 12 mi), Greenville (7%, 21 mi), Southern Shops (3%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Inman walkable?
Inman is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Inman without a car?
1% 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 Inman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Inman
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.