Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0Sellers has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
There are 1 jobs in Sellers for 34 working residents. Hardly any stay in Sellers for work; outside it, Florence is the main destination (15%, 20 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 12% for South Carolina as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Sellers: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 34 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Sellers on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Where Sellers goes to work
Where Sellers clocks in
15% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Sellers
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sellers, 2013 → 2023: 14 → 1. 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 Sellers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Sellers
of Sellers workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 39 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.
How far Sellers’ workers travel
About 26% 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 Sellers: questions
What is the median household income in Sellers?
$32,614 (±$25,584) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sellers?
57.8%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Sellers work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (15%, 20 mi), Durham (6%, 122 mi), Latta (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Sellers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 38% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sellers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sellers
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.