Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Moncks Corner’s household incomes are higher than in 69% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 8.3% of residents (South Carolina 14.1%). The two grades for Moncks Corner are B+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in ten work in Moncks Corner; the top destination outside it is North Charleston (24%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Moncks Corner: the figures worth knowing
Moncks Corner’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Moncks Corner is better than 71% of U.S. towns, #26 of 168 in South Carolina. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Moncks Corner’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Moncks Corner could be anywhere from B− to A.
Out of Moncks Corner to work: where people go
Where Moncks Corner clocks in
24% of workers
11% of workers
5% 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 daily flow of workers through Moncks Corner
On a workday 5,110 residents head out to work, 638 work right here, and 6,525 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 (1.25 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.
The 7,163 jobs based in Moncks Corner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moncks Corner, 2013 → 2023: 6,144 → 7,163. 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 Moncks Corner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Moncks Corner takes 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 Moncks Corner workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,786 commuters (the 14% 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 Moncks Corner goes to work
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Moncks Corner walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moncks Corner is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #113 of 169 in South Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.4% across South Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,867 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 10% 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). 2.8% of Moncks Corner households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moncks Corner’s commuters take a bus or train.
875th of 1,931: where Moncks Corner ranks among U.S. towns of 14,000 to 28,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ada Township MI | 14,769 | $168K | 2.0% | 0.7% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Tega Cay SC | 14,457 | $142K | 1.5% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 150 | Five Forks SC | 18,656 | $142K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 766 | Hanahan SC | 22,415 | $88K | 11.7% | 2.5% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 873 | Morris IL | 14,669 | $77K | 7.7% | 2.9% | 20% | B+ |
| 874 | Palisades Park NJ | 20,317 | $95K | 9.4% | 5.6% | 7% | B+ |
| 875 | Moncks Corner SC | 20,612 | $92K | 8.3% | 3.6% | 11% | B+ |
| 876 | Milton NY | 19,546 | $100K | 5.8% | 4.9% | 8% | B+ |
| 877 | Black Forest CO | 15,738 | $145K | 5.0% | 4.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,931 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Moncks Corner, 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 Moncks Corner: questions
What is the median household income in Moncks Corner?
$91,500 (±$12,290) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moncks Corner?
8.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moncks Corner?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moncks Corner work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Charleston (24%, 20 mi), Charleston (11%, 26 mi), Goose Creek (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moncks Corner walkable?
Moncks Corner is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moncks Corner without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moncks Corner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moncks Corner
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.