Work & commute · Boiling Springs

Work & commute in Boiling Springs, SC

Most working residents leave Boiling Springs for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Spartanburg (18%), Greenville (6%) and Southern Shops (3%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

245 of 5,255 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,010 Boiling Springs residents head out of town to work, 245 work right here, and 3,508 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Boiling Springs.

5,010live here, work elsewhere

245live and work here

3,508work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Boiling Springs goes to work

Spartanburg7.5 mi away

18%925

Greenville26.1 mi away

6%319

Boiling Springs (in town)right here

5%245

Southern Shops4.4 mi away

3%160

Valley Falls2.7 mi away

3%139

Greer16.2 mi away

2%104

Columbia92.7 mi away

2%80

Mauldin26 mi away

1%76

Hilltop4.9 mi away

1%62

Whitney5.3 mi away

1%55

Everywhere elseother towns and states

59%3,090

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Boiling Springs commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

48%

25%

12%

16%

48%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Boiling Springs is a commuter town

0.71jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Boiling Springs are

3,753 jobs are based in Boiling Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Boiling Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Boiling Springs

3,753 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Boiling Springs residents hold

5,255 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+49%

Jobs based in Boiling Springs, 2013 → 2023: 2,511 → 3,753. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.