Work & commute · Five Forks

Work & commute in Five Forks, SC

Most working residents leave Five Forks for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Greenville (25%), Mauldin (5%) and Greer (3%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

267 of 7,267 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,000 Five Forks residents head out of town to work, 267 work right here, and 2,865 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Five Forks.

7,000live here, work elsewhere

267live and work here

2,865work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Five Forks goes to work

Greenville8.2 mi away

25%1,812

Mauldin5.1 mi away

5%348

Five Forks (in town)right here

4%267

Greer8.4 mi away

3%192

Simpsonville5.9 mi away

2%142

Gantt10.4 mi away

2%137

Wade Hampton8 mi away

2%134

Spartanburg19.3 mi away

2%129

Columbia92.3 mi away

1%104

North Charleston180.1 mi away

1%61

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%3,941

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

How far

How far Five Forks commutes

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

59%

23%

13%

59%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Five Forks is a commuter town

0.43jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Five Forks are

3,132 jobs are based in Five Forks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Five Forks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Five Forks

3,132 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Five Forks residents hold

7,267 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+115%

Jobs based in Five Forks, 2013 → 2023: 1,460 → 3,132. 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.