Price's Mill · Photo: Jack Boucher · Public domainParksville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
The trip to work takes 36 minutes on average, where South Carolina has 26 and the U.S. 26. 4 jobs are based in Parksville, and 39 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Parksville; the top destination outside it is Augusta (15%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Parksville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 39 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 96 people are in Parksville on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Parksville goes to work
Where Parksville clocks in
8% of workers
8% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 50% of the jobs in Parksville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Parksville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 36 minutes to work from Parksville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Parksville workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 24 commuters (the 17% 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 it is to work from Parksville
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.
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 Parksville: questions
What is the median household income in Parksville?
$40,625 (±$5,738) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Parksville?
11.0%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Parksville?
36 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Parksville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Augusta (15%, 30 mi), McCormick (8%, 10 mi), Greenwood (8%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Parksville 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 Parksville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Parksville
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.