Work & commute · Folly Beach

Work & commute in Folly Beach, SC

Most working residents leave Folly Beach for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Charleston (31%), North Charleston (12%) and Mount Pleasant (7%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

81 of 619 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

33%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 538 Folly Beach residents head out of town to work, 81 work right here, and 933 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Folly Beach.

538live here, work elsewhere

81live and work here

933work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Folly Beach goes to work

Charleston11 mi away

31%189

Folly Beach (in town)right here

13%81

North Charleston18.2 mi away

12%74

Mount Pleasant11 mi away

7%43

Columbia109.1 mi away

2%12

Greenville203.6 mi away

2%10

James Island4.8 mi away

1%9

Kiawah Island6.9 mi away

1%9

Florence104.8 mi away

1%6

Clemson215 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%182

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

How far

How far Folly Beach commutes

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

41%

32%

23%

41%Under 10 mi

32%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Folly Beach is a job hub

1.64jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Folly Beach are

1,014 jobs are based in Folly Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Folly Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Folly Beach

1,014 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Folly Beach residents hold

619 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+255%

Jobs based in Folly Beach, 2013 → 2023: 286 → 1,014. 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.