Lake Secession has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are lower than in 86% of U.S. towns. Employers in Lake Secession report 21 jobs, and 395 of its residents work somewhere. Lake Secession grades C for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Lake Secession apart on work
Lake Secession’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Lake Secession is better than 28% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lake Secession’s grade up (7.1%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($51,875, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Lake Secession’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Lake Secession could be anywhere from D to B.
Who commutes out of Lake Secession, and who commutes in
On a workday 394 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Lake Secession on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Anderson
Where Lake Secession clocks in
13% of workers
7% 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 kinds of work in Lake Secession
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Secession, 2014 → 2024: 11 → 21. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Secession’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Lake Secession: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Secession workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 474 commuters (the 9% 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 Lake Secession
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Lake Secession gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lake Secession is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Lake Secession 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 521 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). 0.0% of Lake Secession households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lake Secession’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lake Secession is 2,863rd among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 372 | Cane Savannah SC | 1,551 | $132K | 4.6% | 11.8% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 714 | Shell Point SC | 1,439 | $82K | 3.1% | 6.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,070 | Elgin SC | 1,675 | $92K | 4.2% | 7.3% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,861 | Erie Township OH | 1,154 | $50K | 8.6% | 2.6% | 4% | C |
| 2,862 | Barnet VT | 1,654 | $67K | 8.2% | 0.6% | 3% | C |
| 2,863 | Lake Secession SC | 1,268 | $52K | 7.1% | 5.0% | <1% | C |
| 2,864 | Grimsley TN | 1,171 | $57K | 6.5% | 11.0% | 0% | C |
| 2,865 | Mulberry IN | 1,224 | $59K | 15.3% | 6.6% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Lake Secession, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Lake Secession and the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lake Secession workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Secession | – | C | D− | 29 min | $51,875 |
| Antreville | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Antreville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lake Secession’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 2024, 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 Lake Secession: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Secession?
$51,875 (±$34,614) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Secession?
7.1%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake Secession?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake Secession work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Anderson (13%, 16 mi), Abbeville (7%, 14 mi), Greenwood (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lake Secession walkable?
Lake Secession is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lake Secession without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Secession, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Secession
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.