Households in Sans Souci have lower incomes than those in 93% of U.S. towns
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 1.4 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 2.2 in North Charleston. 15.9% of residents live below the poverty line, against 14.1% across South Carolina. Sans Souci grades C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Sans Souci apart on work
Sans Souci has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Sans Souci went from 1,599 in 2014 to 2,324 in 2024, +45%. The jobs ↓
31% of Sans Souci works in Greenville
1,011 working residents, 31%, have their main job in Greenville, 5 miles away across the town line. That’s 16 times as many as work in Sans Souci itself. The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
35% of the jobs based in Sans Souci are held by workers 29 or younger, against 24% of Sans Souci’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What’s behind Sans Souci’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Sans Souci is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #79 of 168 in South Carolina. Job access by car holds Sans Souci’s grade up (ahead of 80% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($45,069, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sans Souci could be anywhere from C− to B.
What Sans Souci’s employers do
2,324 jobs are based in Sans Souci.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sans Souci, 2014 → 2024: 1,599 → 2,324. 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 Sans Souci’s own residents hold wherever they work.
31% of working residents work in Greenville
Where Sans Souci clocks in
31% of workers
4% 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.
Who leaves Sans Souci for work, and who comes in
On a workday 3,241 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 2,256 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,700 people are in Sans Souci on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.70 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 2024, primary jobs.
From Sans Souci, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sans Souci workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,272 commuters (the 18% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Sans Souci
About 15% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Sans Souci is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sans Souci is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #16 of 169 in South Carolina. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above 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 3,967 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 95% 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 1.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 63% 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). 11.8% of Sans Souci households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Sans Souci’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Sans Souci is 2,074th of 3,018 U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 219 | Lake Murray of Richland SC | 7,023 | $119K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 934 | Blythewood SC | 7,233 | $94K | 4.8% | 5.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,025 | Murrells Inlet SC | 10,044 | $77K | 7.3% | 2.0% | 11% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,072 | Gardnerville NV | 5,486 | $62K | 14.4% | 2.2% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,073 | Blooming Grove Township PA | 5,751 | $85K | 4.4% | 8.1% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,074 | Sans Souci SC | 7,665 | $45K | 15.9% | 3.9% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,075 | Lincoln AL | 8,110 | $57K | 15.6% | 3.5% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,076 | Union Township OH | 8,028 | $58K | 12.1% | 2.2% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,018 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Sans Souci, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
Bordering towns draw 32% of Sans Souci’s workers
The biggest share goes to Greenville (31%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sans Souci workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sans Souci | – | C+ | A− | 23 min | $45,069 |
| Parker | 1% | C− | B+ | 24 min | $40,043 |
| Berea | under 2% | C− | C+ | 25 min | $49,829 |
| Greenville | 31% | B− | A | 19 min | $71,472 |
| City View | under 2% | — | — | 16 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. City View: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sans Souci’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 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 Sans Souci: questions
What is the median household income in Sans Souci?
$45,069 (±$5,255) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sans Souci?
15.9%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sans Souci?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sans Souci work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (31%, 5 mi), Mauldin (4%, 10 mi), Travelers Rest (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Sans Souci walkable?
Sans Souci is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sans Souci without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sans Souci, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sans Souci
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.