Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Meggett earn more than those in 75% of U.S. towns
11.0% of residents are in poverty, against 14.1% across South Carolina. Meggett grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 6% work in Meggett itself; outside it, Charleston draws the most (27%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Meggett, in brief
Meggett and Charleston trade workers both ways
Charleston is the top workplace for Meggett residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Meggett come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most jobs in Meggett pay over $40,000 a year
80% of the jobs based in Meggett pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Meggett makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Meggett are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Meggett residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 701 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Meggett
On income, poverty and job access, Meggett is better than 61% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Meggett’s grade up ($97,865, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Meggett’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, Meggett could be anywhere from C to A.
Where Meggett goes to work
Where Meggett clocks in
27% of workers
15% 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.
Goods jobs make up 41% of work in Meggett
482 jobs are based in Meggett.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meggett, 2014 → 2024: 388 → 482. 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 Meggett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Meggett by day
On a workday 661 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 442 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Meggett on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.69 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 2024, primary jobs.
About 34 minutes each way, longer than most of South Carolina
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meggett workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 558 commuters (the 10% 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.
Meggett’s commute, mile by mile
About 16% 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.
The commute in Meggett is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Meggett is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.4% across South Carolina, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 618 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). 10.6% of Meggett households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Meggett’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Meggett comes 1,563rd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 263 | Pimlico SC | 1,765 | $137K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 268 | Sullivan's Island SC | 1,961 | $193K | 8.8% | 1.5% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 507 | Cane Savannah SC | 1,551 | $132K | 4.6% | 11.8% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,561 | Schoolcraft MI | 1,439 | $75K | 8.8% | 1.8% | 3% | B |
| 1,562 | South Waverly PA | 1,089 | $88K | 8.6% | 6.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,563 | Meggett SC | 1,484 | $98K | 11.0% | 2.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,564 | Detroit Township MN | 1,974 | $94K | 9.6% | 2.1% | <1% | B |
| 1,565 | Camden Township OH | 1,513 | $60K | 4.7% | 2.5% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Meggett, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Around Meggett: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Hollywood (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Meggett’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 Meggett: questions
What is the median household income in Meggett?
$97,865 (±$25,121) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meggett?
11.0%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meggett?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meggett work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charleston (27%, 20 mi), North Charleston (15%, 19 mi), Mount Pleasant (4%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Meggett walkable?
Meggett is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meggett without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meggett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meggett
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.