Heriot-Moise House · Photo: Charlesinsumter · CC BY-SA 3.0Mulberry has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 12% for South Carolina as a whole. Mulberry has 68 jobs, and 218 of its residents work somewhere. A typical one-way commute from Mulberry lasts 32 minutes (South Carolina 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Mulberry: the gist
Mulberry and Sumter trade workers both ways
Sumter is the top workplace for Mulberry residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Mulberry come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Mulberry than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Mulberry fell from 303 in 2013 to 68 in 2023, −78%. 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 ↓
Few Mulberry 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 218 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
28% of working residents work in Sumter
Where Mulberry clocks in
28% of workers
8% of workers
1% 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 Mulberry
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mulberry, 2013 → 2023: 303 → 68. 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 Mulberry’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Mulberry: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mulberry workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 102 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Mulberry
On a workday 218 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 68 people come in from elsewhere.
About 320 people are in Mulberry on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
How far Mulberry’s workers travel
About 25% 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 towns next door employ 28% of Mulberry
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Sumter. Darker towns draw more of Mulberry’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 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 Mulberry: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mulberry?
19.0%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mulberry?
32 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 Mulberry work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sumter (28%, 4 mi), Columbia (8%, 33 mi), Raleigh (1%, 161 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mulberry 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 Mulberry, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mulberry
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.