Work & commute · East Sumter

Work & commute in East Sumter, SC

Most working residents leave East Sumter for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Sumter (29%), Columbia (7%) and Florence (2%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 433 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

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 428 East Sumter residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 474 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East Sumter.

428live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

474work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East Sumter goes to work

Sumter6 mi away

29%124

Columbia35.5 mi away

7%31

Florence33.5 mi away

2%9

North Charleston71 mi away

1%6

Charleston78.1 mi away

1%6

Rock Hill81.2 mi away

1%5

Greenville133.7 mi away

1%5

South Sumter3.9 mi away

1%5

East Sumter (in town)right here

1%5

Pinewood16.2 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%233

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

How far

How far East Sumter commutes

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

49%

21%

24%

49%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East Sumter is balanced between jobs and homes

1.11jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.11 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in East Sumter are

479 jobs are based in East Sumter. Here is what they are, next to the jobs East Sumter’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in East Sumter

479 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)46%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs East Sumter residents hold

433 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month41%

+3%

Jobs based in East Sumter, 2013 → 2023: 464 → 479. 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.