Mizpah Methodist Church · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Ulmer has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 26 people come in to work
Hardly any work in Ulmer itself; outside it, Brooklet draws the most (7%, 56 miles). 26 jobs are based in Ulmer; 14 of its residents have a job. 0% of workers work from home (South Carolina 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Ulmer: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 14 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 67 people are in Ulmer on a workday afternoon, 22% more 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 Ulmer’s workers come from
Where Ulmer clocks in
7% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 88% of the jobs in Ulmer
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ulmer, 2013 → 2023: 53 → 26. 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 Ulmer’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of South Carolina
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ulmer workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 92 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 Ulmer goes to work
About 43% 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 Ulmer: questions
What is the median household income in Ulmer?
$90,192 (±$14,325) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ulmer?
2.6%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ulmer?
22 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 Ulmer work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brooklet (7%, 56 mi), Furman (7%, 29 mi), Allendale (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ulmer without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ulmer, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ulmer
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.