With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Sangaree works elsewhere
Hardly any work in Sangaree itself; outside it, North Charleston draws the most (27%, 9 miles). Employers in Sangaree report 944 jobs for 3,428 working residents. The two grades for Sangaree are B+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Sangaree apart on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Sangaree
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sangaree is better than 66% of U.S. towns, #36 of 168 in South Carolina. Unemployment holds Sangaree’s grade up (2.0%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sangaree could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Sangaree
On a workday 3,395 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 911 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,200 people are in Sangaree on a workday afternoon, 29% 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 Sangaree: the destinations
Where Sangaree clocks in
27% of workers
15% of workers
9% 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 Sangaree’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sangaree, 2013 → 2023: 762 → 944. 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 Sangaree’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 30 minutes from Sangaree
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sangaree workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,007 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Sangaree
About 16% 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.
In Sangaree, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sangaree is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns, #114 of 169 in South Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% of 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 4,326 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.5% of Sangaree households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sangaree’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 6,100 to 11,700, Sangaree ranks 1,275th of 2,893 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 231 | Lake Murray of Richland SC | 7,023 | $119K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 800 | Powdersville SC | 10,771 | $85K | 9.3% | 1.7% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 948 | Blythewood SC | 7,233 | $94K | 4.8% | 5.0% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,273 | Peru NY | 6,669 | $102K | 8.9% | 1.6% | 14% | B+ |
| 1,274 | Summit Township PA | 7,539 | $74K | 9.8% | 2.3% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,275 | Sangaree SC | 8,681 | $78K | 15.4% | 2.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,276 | Tontitown AR | 8,046 | $86K | 4.7% | 6.0% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,277 | Wellington Township OH | 6,144 | $71K | 9.2% | 2.1% | 17% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,893 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Sangaree, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Next door to Sangaree
The biggest share goes to Ladson (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Sangaree’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 Sangaree: questions
What is the median household income in Sangaree?
$77,673 (±$17,284) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sangaree?
15.4%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sangaree?
30 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 Sangaree work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Charleston (27%, 9 mi), Charleston (15%, 17 mi), Summerville (9%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sangaree walkable?
Sangaree is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sangaree without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sangaree, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sangaree
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. 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.