Work & commute · Homewood

Work & commute in Homewood, SC

Most working residents leave Homewood for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Conway (26%), Myrtle Beach (14%) and Red Hill (4%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 700 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 686 Homewood residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 1,210 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Homewood.

686live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

1,210work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Homewood goes to work

Conway3.8 mi away

26%184

Myrtle Beach15.6 mi away

14%96

Red Hill8 mi away

4%29

North Myrtle Beach20.1 mi away

3%19

Columbia106.4 mi away

2%16

Homewood (in town)right here

2%14

Florence46.9 mi away

2%11

Loris14.8 mi away

1%10

North Charleston89.1 mi away

1%9

Carolina Forest11.6 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%303

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

How far

How far Homewood commutes

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

44%

31%

19%

44%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Homewood is a job hub

1.75jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Homewood are

1,224 jobs are based in Homewood. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Homewood’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Homewood

1,224 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less4%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month74%

Jobs Homewood residents hold

700 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month48%

+4%

Jobs based in Homewood, 2013 → 2023: 1,173 → 1,224. 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.