How Rains works: jobs, income and commuting
Hardly any work in Rains; the top destination outside it is Marion (19%, 7 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; South Carolina has 12%. Rains has 51 jobs, and 80 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Rains
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 55 people are in Rains on a workday afternoon, 35% fewer than live here.
0.64 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Rains goes to work
Where Rains clocks in
19% of workers
8% 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.
Rains works in goods: 92% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rains, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 51. 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 Rains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Rains
of Rains workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 65 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Rains
About 30% 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 Rains: questions
What is the poverty rate in Rains?
0.0%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Rains work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marion (19%, 7 mi), Florence (8%, 28 mi), North Charleston (5%, 92 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Rains 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 Rains, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rains
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.