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Work & commute in Briarcliffe Acres · A commuter town

100% of Briarcliffe Acres’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Briarcliffe Acres for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are North Myrtle Beach (25%), Myrtle Beach (19%) and Conway (6%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 156 working residents
Typical commute
10 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
23 min
Less than SC (26 min)
Work from home
13%
More than SC (12%)
Jobs based here
24
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Briarcliffe Acres?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

25% of working residents work in North Myrtle Beach

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Sunset Beach: 4 residents work here (3%)Briarcliffe AcresSurfside BeachMyrtle Beach: 30 residents work here (19%)Florence: 2 residents work here (1%)North Myrtle Beach: 39 residents work here (25%)Rock HillGreenville: 2 residents work here (1%)Conway: 9 residents work here (6%)North Charleston: 3 residents work here (2%)Charleston: 6 residents work here (4%)ColumbiaLittle River: 4 residents work here (3%)Red HillSocasteeCarolina Forest: 3 residents work here (2%)BellwoodNorth Myrtle BeachMyrtle BeachConwayCharlestonSunset BeachLittle RiverBriarcliffe Acres
125%39
2
Myrtle Beach9.6 mi away
19%30
3
Conway17.5 mi away
6%9
4
Charleston97 mi away
4%6
5
Sunset Beach, NC15.5 mi away
3%4
6
Little River8.8 mi away
3%4
72%3
8
Carolina Forest9.6 mi away
2%3
9
Florence65.5 mi away
1%2
10
Greenville218.5 mi away
1%2
Everywhere elseother towns and states
35%54
The top trips

Where Briarcliffe Acres clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Next door

25% of Briarcliffe Acres works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to North Myrtle Beach (25%). Darker towns draw more of Briarcliffe Acres’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

Day and night

Briarcliffe Acres quiets down on a workday

On a workday 156 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.

156live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
24work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night450
Workday320
450live here− 160head out to work+ 24come in to work= 320on a workday

About 320 people are in Briarcliffe Acres on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.15jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.15 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 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Briarcliffe Acres commutes less than 10 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miNorth Myrtle Beach: 25% · 3.3 miMyrtle Beach: 19% · 9.6 miConway: 6% · 17.5 miCharleston: 4% · 97 miSunset Beach: 3% · 15.5 miLittle River: 3% · 8.8 miNorth Charleston: 2% · 97 miCarolina Forest: 2% · 9.6 miFlorence: 1% · 65.5 miGreenville: 1% · 218.5 miNorth Myrtle Beach 25%Myrtle Beach 19%Conway 6%Charleston 4%Sunset Beach 3%Briarcliffe Acres
Briarcliffe AcresTop destinations (size = commuters)
47%Under 10 mi71 residents
28%10–24 mi43 residents
1%25–50 mi1 residents
24%Over 50 mi37 residents

About 24% 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.

The jobs

Mostly services: health care, schools and offices

24 jobs are based in Briarcliffe Acres. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Briarcliffe Acres’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Briarcliffe AcresJobs Briarcliffe Acres residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms0%11%
Trade, transport & utilities0%15%
Services: health, schools, offices100%74%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less8%19%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%33%
Over $3,333 a month63%47%

Who does it

29 or younger0%12%
30 to 5442%49%
55 and older58%40%
−59%

Jobs based in Briarcliffe Acres, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 24. 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.

Time on the road

About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of South Carolina

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
178 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Briarcliffe Acres23 min
South Carolina26 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
13%

of Briarcliffe Acres workers work from home, vs 12% across South Carolina. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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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.

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