Calhoun Mill · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Mount Carmel commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
0% of workers work from home, against 12% across South Carolina. Employers in Mount Carmel report 7 jobs for 50 working residents. Hardly any stay in Mount Carmel for work; outside it, Greenwood is the main destination (8%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Mount Carmel, and who commutes in
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Mount Carmel on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
Where Mount Carmel’s working residents head each day
Where Mount Carmel clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Mount Carmel
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Carmel, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 7. 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 Mount Carmel’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Mount Carmel spends getting to work: about 43 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Carmel workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 70 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.
Mount Carmel’s commute, mile by mile
About 38% 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 Mount Carmel: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Carmel?
$43,504 (±$6,394) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Carmel?
33.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Carmel?
43 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 Mount Carmel work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwood (8%, 24 mi), Abbeville (6%, 13 mi), Irmo (4%, 75 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Carmel without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Carmel, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Carmel
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.