McWhirter House · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Jonesville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, against 12% across South Carolina. There are 38 jobs in Jonesville; 386 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Jonesville for work; outside it, Spartanburg is the main destination (10%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Jonesville apart
Jonesville is a place people come home to
There are 38 jobs based in Jonesville, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Jonesville has about 470 people in it, 43% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Jonesville 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 386 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In and out of Jonesville on a workday
On a workday 385 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Jonesville on a workday afternoon, 43% fewer 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.
How long Jonesville spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jonesville workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 487 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 Jonesville goes to work
Where Jonesville clocks in
10% 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.
What Jonesville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jonesville, 2013 → 2023: 73 → 38. 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 Jonesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Jonesville goes to work
About 24% 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 Jonesville: questions
What is the median household income in Jonesville?
$40,625 (±$17,020) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jonesville?
19.8%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jonesville?
24 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 Jonesville work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spartanburg (10%, 16 mi), Union (7%, 8 mi), Columbia (4%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Jonesville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jonesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jonesville
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.