North Carolina-South Carolina Cornerstone · Photo: Bill Fitzpatrick · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Van Wyck trail those of 97% of U.S. towns
Hardly any work in Van Wyck; the top destination outside it is Charlotte (25%, 24 miles). Poverty touches 5.4% of residents (South Carolina 14.1%). Jobs and income earn Van Wyck B−; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Van Wyck and work: the main findings
Van Wyck’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Van Wyck is Charlotte, NC, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 25% of working residents (82) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A lot of Van Wyck workers cross into North Carolina
35% of Van Wyck workers work outside South Carolina, most of them in North Carolina, the Census survey finds. The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 323 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Van Wyck earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Van Wyck is better than 52% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Van Wyck’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($38,250, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (9.5%) is left out: Van Wyck’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Van Wyck could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Short hops and long hauls from Van Wyck
About 32% 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.
The towns that employ Van Wyck’s residents
Where Van Wyck clocks in
25% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Who commutes out of Van Wyck, and who commutes in
On a workday 321 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 346 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.08 per resident).
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 Van Wyck
348 jobs are based in Van Wyck.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Van Wyck, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 348. 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 Van Wyck’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 34 minutes to work from Van Wyck
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Van Wyck workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 300 commuters (the 16% 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.
Driving is how Van Wyck gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Van Wyck is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. 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 357 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). 2.3% of Van Wyck households have no vehicle (South Carolina 5.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Van Wyck’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Van Wyck ranks: 969th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 872 | Edisto Beach SC | 1,071 | $86K | 2.5% | 5.8% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 920 | Murphys Estates SC | 1,064 | $90K | 14.6% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 927 | Warrenville SC | 1,042 | $53K | 6.0% | 4.1% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 967 | Pleasant Grove Township IL | 1,187 | $77K | 7.2% | 5.7% | <1% | B− |
| 968 | Clinton Township PA | 1,302 | $86K | 9.0% | 4.0% | 2% | B− |
| 969 | Van Wyck SC | 1,065 | $38K | 5.4% | 9.5% | 1% | B− |
| 970 | Middlefork Township IL | 1,295 | $79K | 4.8% | 3.1% | 2% | B− |
| 971 | Blooming Grove Township IN | 1,034 | $95K | 6.7% | 14.1% | 0% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Van Wyck, 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 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 Van Wyck: questions
What is the median household income in Van Wyck?
$38,250 (±$32,961) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $69,324 across South Carolina and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Van Wyck?
5.4%, against 14.1% across South Carolina and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Van Wyck?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across South Carolina and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Van Wyck work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Charlotte (25%, 24 mi), Rock Hill (7%, 12 mi), Lancaster (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Van Wyck walkable?
Van Wyck is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Van Wyck without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Van Wyck, from the people who make the trip.
More of Van Wyck
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.