Hurricane Tavern · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Reidville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Measured by household income, Reidville is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns. There are 134 jobs in Reidville, against 1,173 working residents. Jobs and income earn Reidville A−; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Reidville apart on work
Income, poverty and work: Reidville’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Reidville is better than 82% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Reidville’s grade up (3.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.9%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Reidville could be anywhere from B to A+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Reidville
On a workday 1,167 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 128 people come in from elsewhere.
About 870 people are in Reidville on a workday afternoon, 55% 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.
14% of working residents work in Greenville
Where Reidville clocks in
14% 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.
Jobs in Reidville: what the 134 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Reidville, 2014 → 2024: 125 → 134. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Reidville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Reidville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Reidville workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,077 commuters (the 7% 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.
Where in the region Reidville works
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.
In Reidville, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Reidville is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 2.4% across South Carolina.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,157 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.4% of Reidville households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Reidville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Reidville is 655th of 5,921 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 302 | Pimlico SC | 1,765 | $137K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 307 | Sullivan's Island SC | 1,961 | $193K | 8.8% | 1.5% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 433 | Folly Beach SC | 2,081 | $102K | 4.0% | 2.1% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 653 | Westlake Corner VA | 2,033 | $95K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 9% | A− |
| 654 | Dallas Center IA | 2,042 | $96K | 8.8% | 0.5% | 6% | A− |
| 655 | Reidville SC | 1,905 | $121K | 3.3% | 4.9% | 1% | A− |
| 656 | Illinois Township KS | 2,134 | $106K | 7.8% | 11.0% | 1% | A− |
| 657 | Carlos Township MN | 2,261 | $104K | 2.7% | 1.1% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Reidville, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
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 Reidville: questions
What is the median household income in Reidville?
$120,700 (±$14,095) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Reidville?
3.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Reidville?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Reidville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (14%, 14 mi), Spartanburg (8%, 12 mi), Greer (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Reidville walkable?
Reidville is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Reidville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Reidville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reidville
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.