Photo: Evanoco · CC BY 4.0McCormick has lower household incomes than 95% of U.S. towns
The two grades for McCormick are D− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 26.6% of residents; South Carolina has 14.1%. Home is the office for 4% of workers (South Carolina 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in McCormick: the figures worth knowing
Fewer jobs are based in McCormick than ten years ago
Jobs counted in McCormick fell from 952 in 2013 to 469 in 2023, −51%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
37% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Fewer than half of McCormick workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of McCormick’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 19% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 673 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind McCormick’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, McCormick is better than 2% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides McCormick’s grade.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: McCormick’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, McCormick stays D−.
What McCormick’s employers do
469 jobs are based in McCormick.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in McCormick, 2013 → 2023: 952 → 469. 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 McCormick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far McCormick’s workers travel
About 37% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of McCormick
On a workday 637 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 433 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in McCormick on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.70 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
11% of working residents work in Greenwood
Where McCormick clocks in
11% of workers
3% 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.
About 26 minutes each way, about the SC average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of McCormick workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 569 commuters (the 4% 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.
Most trips from McCormick start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, McCormick is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.4% across South Carolina, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 592 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). 14.0% of McCormick households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of McCormick’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where McCormick sits among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 297 | Pimlico SC | 1,765 | $137K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 303 | Sullivan's Island SC | 1,961 | $193K | 8.8% | 1.5% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 427 | Folly Beach SC | 2,081 | $102K | 4.0% | 2.1% | 13% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,294 | Ripley OH | 1,597 | $49K | 23.9% | 12.7% | 9% | D− |
| 5,295 | Mangum OK | 2,683 | $49K | 21.8% | 11.9% | 29% | D− |
| 5,296 | McCormick SC | 2,010 | $41K | 26.6% | 1.7% | 5% | D− |
| 5,297 | Lost Hills CA | 1,926 | $46K | 24.2% | 5.8% | 8% | D− |
| 5,298 | Lewiston CA | 2,020 | $40K | 17.6% | 4.7% | 6% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 McCormick, 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 McCormick: questions
What is the median household income in McCormick?
$41,111 (±$2,325) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in McCormick?
26.6%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from McCormick?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in McCormick work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (11%, 21 mi), Augusta (4%, 40 mi), Greenville (3%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is McCormick walkable?
McCormick is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around McCormick without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from McCormick, from the people who make the trip.
More of McCormick
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.