Alexander-Hill House · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Keowee Key earn more than those in 90% of U.S. towns
For 30% of workers, the job is at home; South Carolina has 12%. 2.1% of residents live below the poverty line, against 14.1% across South Carolina. Jobs and income earn Keowee Key A−; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Keowee Key
Stores, warehouses and trucking
75% of the jobs in Keowee Key are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Jobs in Keowee Key have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Keowee Key went from 388 in 2013 to 1,649 in 2023, +325%. The jobs ↓
Keowee Key is where the jobs are
Keowee Key has 1,649 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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 746 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Keowee Key’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Keowee Key is better than 83% of U.S. towns, #11 of 168 in South Carolina. The poverty rate holds Keowee Key’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Keowee Key could be anywhere from B to A.
84% of the jobs in Keowee Key pay over $3,333 a month
1,649 jobs are based in Keowee Key.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keowee Key, 2013 → 2023: 388 → 1,649. 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 Keowee Key’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Keowee Key by day and by night
On a workday 696 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 1,599 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,300 people are in Keowee Key on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
2.2 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.
Where Keowee Key’s workers come from
Where Keowee Key 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.
The daily trip from Keowee Key: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keowee Key workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 757 commuters (the 30% 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.
Half of Keowee Key commutes less than 27 miles
About 23% 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.
In Keowee Key, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Keowee Key is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns, #153 of 169 in South Carolina. Both inputs place Keowee Key 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 1,088 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.1% of Keowee Key households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Keowee Key’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Keowee Key is 676th among 4,593 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Isle of Palms SC | 4,377 | $157K | 2.5% | 1.3% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | India Hook SC | 3,960 | $107K | 1.2% | 0.7% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 524 | Golden Grove SC | 2,913 | $73K | 3.1% | 1.6% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 674 | Sandstone Township MI | 3,873 | $98K | 4.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A− |
| 675 | Sorgho KY | 2,960 | $122K | 8.4% | 2.0% | 1% | A− |
| 676 | Keowee Key SC | 3,351 | $125K | 2.1% | 2.6% | 7% | A− |
| 677 | Dodge Center MN | 2,951 | $94K | 3.7% | 2.3% | 18% | A− |
| 678 | Green Township OH | 3,355 | $98K | 8.4% | 0.6% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | 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 Keowee Key, 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 Keowee Key: questions
What is the median household income in Keowee Key?
$124,788 (±$18,895) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keowee Key?
2.1%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keowee Key?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keowee Key work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (10%, 31 mi), Clemson (6%, 11 mi), Walhalla (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Keowee Key walkable?
Keowee Key is more walkable than 18% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Keowee Key without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Keowee Key, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keowee Key
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.