People's Free Library of South Carolina · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Lowrys works elsewhere
0% of workers have no commute at all; South Carolina has 12%. Employers in Lowrys report 19 jobs for 82 working residents. Hardly any stay in Lowrys for work; outside it, Rock Hill is the main destination (16%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Lowrys on a workday
On a workday 82 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Lowrys on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Commuting out of Lowrys: the destinations
Where Lowrys clocks in
16% of workers
11% 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.
Jobs in Lowrys: what the 19 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lowrys, 2013 → 2023: 24 → 19. 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 Lowrys’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Lowrys: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lowrys workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 107 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.
The commute from Lowrys, by distance
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 Lowrys: questions
What is the median household income in Lowrys?
$80,781 (±$9,730) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lowrys?
8.9%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lowrys?
28 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 Lowrys work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rock Hill (16%, 15 mi), Charlotte (11%, 36 mi), Chester (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Lowrys without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lowrys, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lowrys
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.