Photo: Evanoco · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Timmonsville earn less than those in 98% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 31.2%, against 14.1% across South Carolina. For jobs and income Timmonsville is better than 10% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (D). Home is the office for 3% of workers, where South Carolina as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Timmonsville
Timmonsville and Florence trade workers both ways
Florence is the top workplace for Timmonsville residents (28%) and also where the most people who work in Timmonsville come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Many jobs in Timmonsville pay little
30% of the jobs based in Timmonsville pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Fewer than half of Timmonsville workers earn over $40,000 a year
42% of Timmonsville’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 21% earn $1,250 a month or less. 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; with 724 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Timmonsville: the grade in detail
Job access by car holds Timmonsville’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($34,630, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (8.4%) is left out: Timmonsville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Timmonsville could be anywhere from D to C−.
28% of working residents work in Florence
Where Timmonsville clocks in
28% of workers
4% 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.
What Timmonsville’s employers do
355 jobs are based in Timmonsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Timmonsville, 2014 → 2024: 444 → 355. 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 Timmonsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Timmonsville, and who commutes in
On a workday 708 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 339 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Timmonsville on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.49 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 Timmonsville, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Timmonsville workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 661 commuters (the 3% 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 in the region Timmonsville works
About 29% 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.
The commute in Timmonsville is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 682 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 12.9% of Timmonsville households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Timmonsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Timmonsville ranks: 4,615th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 302 | Pimlico SC | 1,765 | $137K | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 307 | Sullivan's Island SC | 1,961 | $193K | 8.8% | 1.5% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 431 | Folly Beach SC | 2,081 | $102K | 4.0% | 2.1% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,613 | Magnolia MS | 1,804 | $55K | 29.8% | 6.4% | 14% | D |
| 4,614 | Portageville MO | 2,702 | $52K | 17.5% | 6.0% | 27% | D |
| 4,615 | Timmonsville SC | 2,117 | $35K | 31.2% | 8.4% | 2% | D |
| 4,616 | Albion ME | 2,092 | $62K | 18.4% | 2.8% | 7% | D |
| 4,617 | Sidney Township MI | 2,651 | $60K | 14.7% | 8.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Timmonsville, the top three, the last and three more from South Carolina.
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 Timmonsville: questions
What is the median household income in Timmonsville?
$34,630 (±$15,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Timmonsville?
31.2%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Timmonsville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Timmonsville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Florence (28%, 9 mi), Columbia (4%, 55 mi), Darlington (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Timmonsville walkable?
Timmonsville is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Timmonsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Timmonsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Timmonsville
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.