Photo: KKing123 · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in McBee
Only 6% work in McBee; the top destination outside it is Hartsville (13%, 12 miles). 0% of workers work from home (South Carolina 12%). Working residents average 22 minutes each way (South Carolina 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in McBee
McBee makes and builds things
48% of the jobs based in McBee are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs McBee residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
Few McBee 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 349 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Goods, not services: 48% of the jobs in McBee
426 jobs are based in McBee.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in McBee, 2013 → 2023: 350 → 426. 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 McBee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes to work from McBee
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of McBee workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 261 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.
Who leaves McBee for work, and who comes in
On a workday 328 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 405 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.22 per resident).
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 McBee: the destinations
Where McBee 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.
Half of McBee commutes less than 25 miles
About 29% 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 McBee: questions
What is the median household income in McBee?
$63,125 (±$23,746) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in McBee?
10.1%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from McBee?
22 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 McBee work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hartsville (13%, 12 mi), Charlotte (4%, 61 mi), Columbia (4%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around McBee 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 McBee, from the people who make the trip.
More of McBee
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.