Campbell's Covered Bridge · Photo: P. Hughes · CC BY-SA 4.0Work, pay and getting to work in Tigerville
Getting around Tigerville on foot earns B. Only 4% stay in Tigerville for work; outside it, Greenville is the main destination (17%, 16 miles). The average commute takes 13 minutes each way (South Carolina 26, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Tigerville: the figures worth knowing
Tigerville is where the jobs are
Tigerville has 659 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Many jobs in Tigerville pay little
38% of the jobs based in Tigerville pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 37% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Tigerville are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 26 across South Carolina. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical South Carolina worker. 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 423 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
In and out of Tigerville on a workday
On a workday 406 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 642 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Tigerville on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
In Tigerville, services account for most jobs
659 jobs are based in Tigerville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tigerville, 2013 → 2023: 88 → 659. 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 Tigerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Tigerville: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tigerville workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 781 commuters (the 11% 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.
Where the people who work in Tigerville live
Where Tigerville clocks in
17% of workers
2% 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.
How far it is to work from Tigerville
About 19% 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.
Tigerville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tigerville is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 39.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 2.4% across South Carolina, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 875 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). 0.0% of Tigerville households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Tigerville’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Tigerville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Tigerville?
13.4%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tigerville?
13 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tigerville work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenville (17%, 16 mi), Travelers Rest (5%, 8 mi), Greer (2%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tigerville walkable?
Tigerville is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 39% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tigerville without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tigerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tigerville
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.