Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Olanta works elsewhere
Employers in Olanta report 93 jobs; 204 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Olanta; the top destination outside it is Florence (24%, 19 miles). Home is the office for 2% of workers, where South Carolina as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Olanta and work: the main findings
A commute of about 22 minutes in Olanta
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Olanta workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 296 commuters (the 2% 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 a workday changes Olanta
On a workday 199 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere.
About 440 people are in Olanta on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Commuting out of Olanta: the destinations
Where Olanta clocks in
24% of workers
7% of workers
2% 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.
What Olanta’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Olanta, 2013 → 2023: 130 → 93. 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 Olanta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Olanta to work
About 27% 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 Olanta: questions
What is the median household income in Olanta?
$54,464 (±$17,666) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Olanta?
15.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Olanta?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Olanta work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (24%, 19 mi), Lake City (7%, 11 mi), Charleston (2%, 77 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Olanta without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Olanta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Olanta
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.