Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Johnsonville are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
0% of workers work from home, next to 12% for South Carolina as a whole. Poverty touches 20.9% of residents; South Carolina has 14.1%. For jobs and income Johnsonville is better than 6% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Johnsonville: the gist
Johnsonville’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Johnsonville is Florence, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (55) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Johnsonville is where the jobs are
Johnsonville has 667 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Few Johnsonville workers work from home
Only 0% 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 430 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Johnsonville
Job access by car holds Johnsonville’s grade up (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,830, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (9.1%) is left out: Johnsonville’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, Johnsonville could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Half of Johnsonville commutes less than 29 miles
About 26% 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.
How many people are in Johnsonville by day
On a workday 378 residents head out to work, 52 work right here, and 615 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Johnsonville on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Time on the road from Johnsonville: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Johnsonville workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 409 commuters (the 0% 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.
Where Johnsonville’s workforce comes from
Where Johnsonville clocks in
13% of workers
4% 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.
In Johnsonville, 35% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
667 jobs are based in Johnsonville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Johnsonville, 2013 → 2023: 633 → 667. 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 Johnsonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Johnsonville commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 409 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). 4.5% of Johnsonville households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Johnsonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Johnsonville comes 4,807th 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 209 | Pimlico SC | 1,765 | $137K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 421 | Cane Savannah SC | 1,551 | $132K | 4.6% | 11.8% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 818 | Shell Point SC | 1,439 | $82K | 3.1% | 6.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,805 | Lakewood Park TN | 1,140 | $43K | 33.8% | 3.3% | <1% | D |
| 4,806 | Caney KS | 1,704 | $39K | 17.4% | 6.9% | 30% | D |
| 4,807 | Johnsonville SC | 1,348 | $45K | 20.9% | 9.1% | 12% | D |
| 4,808 | Ramsey Township IL | 1,609 | $55K | 18.0% | 1.8% | 3% | D |
| 4,809 | Rolland Township MI | 1,442 | $55K | 20.6% | 7.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Johnsonville, 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 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 Johnsonville: questions
What is the median household income in Johnsonville?
$44,830 (±$14,827) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Johnsonville?
20.9%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Johnsonville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Johnsonville work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (13%, 32 mi), Lake City (4%, 18 mi), Conway (4%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Johnsonville walkable?
Johnsonville is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Johnsonville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Johnsonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Johnsonville
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.