Work & commute · Fountain Inn

Work & commute in Fountain Inn, SC

Most working residents leave Fountain Inn for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Greenville (19%), Mauldin (5%) and Simpsonville (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

275 of 5,398 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,123 Fountain Inn residents head out of town to work, 275 work right here, and 3,843 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fountain Inn.

5,123live here, work elsewhere

275live and work here

3,843work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fountain Inn goes to work

Greenville13.3 mi away

19%1,049

Mauldin8.2 mi away

5%277

Fountain Inn (in town)right here

5%275

Simpsonville3.8 mi away

5%260

Greer16.3 mi away

2%100

Spartanburg23.3 mi away

2%95

Gantt12.9 mi away

2%83

Columbia87.1 mi away

2%82

Wade Hampton14.8 mi away

1%64

Laurens16.9 mi away

1%50

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%3,063

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

How far

How far Fountain Inn commutes

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

31%

50%

13%

31%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fountain Inn is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Fountain Inn are

4,118 jobs are based in Fountain Inn. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fountain Inn’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fountain Inn

4,118 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)55%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)31%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Fountain Inn residents hold

5,398 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+15%

Jobs based in Fountain Inn, 2013 → 2023: 3,581 → 4,118. 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.