McLeod Farmstead · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Seabrook has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Seabrook has 131 jobs, against 485 working residents. Working residents average 31 minutes each way, next to 26 for South Carolina and 26 for the U.S. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where South Carolina as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Seabrook and work: the main findings
Seabrook and Beaufort trade workers both ways
Beaufort is the top workplace for Seabrook residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Seabrook come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Seabrook is a place people come home to
There are 131 jobs based in Seabrook, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Seabrook has about 450 people in it, 44% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Seabrook workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 12% across South Carolina. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 485 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
18% of working residents work in Beaufort
Where Seabrook clocks in
18% of workers
6% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Seabrook
On a workday 481 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 127 people come in from elsewhere.
About 450 people are in Seabrook on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
Seabrook’s commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seabrook workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 379 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.
Goods jobs make up 34% of work in Seabrook
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seabrook, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 131. 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 Seabrook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Seabrook works
About 21% 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.
18% of Seabrook works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Beaufort. Darker towns draw more of Seabrook’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 Seabrook: questions
What is the median household income in Seabrook?
$63,149 (±$25,030) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seabrook?
21.3%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seabrook?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seabrook work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Beaufort (18%, 6 mi), Burton (10%, 8 mi), Hilton Head Island (6%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Seabrook without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seabrook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seabrook
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.