Greer Post Office · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Taylors has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
There are 3,543 jobs in Taylors for 9,923 working residents. Jobs and income earn Taylors B; getting around on foot earns it C. Only 3% stay in Taylors for work; outside it, Greenville is the main destination (29%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Taylors
Most Taylors residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
29% of Taylors works in Greenville
2,855 working residents, 29%, have their main job in Greenville, 6 miles away. That’s 10 times as many as work in Taylors itself. The commute map ↓
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.
Taylors’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Taylors is better than 62% of U.S. towns, #44 of 168 in South Carolina. Job access by car holds Taylors’ grade up (ahead of 78% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Taylors could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Miles to work from Taylors
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.
Where the trip to work from Taylors ends
Where Taylors clocks in
29% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Taylors
On a workday 9,647 residents head out to work, 276 work right here, and 3,267 people come in from elsewhere.
About 18,000 people are in Taylors on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The kinds of work in Taylors
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taylors, 2013 → 2023: 2,898 → 3,543. 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 Taylors’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Taylors
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taylors workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,769 commuters (the 15% 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.
In Taylors, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Taylors is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #124 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 12,662 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 10% 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 0.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 49% 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 Taylors households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Taylors’ commuters take a bus or train.
Taylors places 923rd of 1,642 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 17,000 to 33,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
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| 111 | Five Forks SC | 18,656 | $142K | 2.5% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 678 | Hanahan SC | 22,415 | $88K | 11.7% | 2.5% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 721 | Simpsonville SC | 28,459 | $82K | 6.1% | 4.1% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 921 | Coralville IA | 23,960 | $69K | 13.0% | 2.2% | 16% | B |
| 922 | Highland IN | 23,409 | $78K | 11.6% | 4.7% | 11% | B |
| 923 | Taylors SC | 24,505 | $77K | 10.6% | 4.0% | 3% | B |
| 924 | New Windsor NY | 27,844 | $95K | 5.4% | 8.9% | 10% | B |
| 925 | Lakeside CA | 22,447 | $96K | 9.9% | 6.8% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,642 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Taylors, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
The towns around Taylors
The biggest share goes to Wade Hampton (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Taylors workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylors | – | B | C | 22 min | $77,144 |
| Wade Hampton | 4% | B+ | B+ | 20 min | $77,449 |
| Greer | 4% | B+ | C+ | 24 min | $82,626 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Taylors’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 Taylors: questions
What is the median household income in Taylors?
$77,144 (±$12,476) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taylors?
10.6%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taylors?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taylors work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (29%, 6 mi), Wade Hampton (4%, 2 mi), Greer (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Taylors walkable?
Taylors is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taylors without a car?
<1% 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 Taylors, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taylors
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.