Work & commute · Mullins

Work & commute in Mullins, SC

Most working residents leave Mullins for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Marion (11%), Florence (9%) and Columbia (3%). Half commute less than 28 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

151 of 1,385 working residents

Typical commute

28 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 1,234 Mullins residents head out of town to work, 151 work right here, and 1,138 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mullins.

1,234live here, work elsewhere

151live and work here

1,138work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mullins goes to work

Mullins (in town)right here

11%151

Marion8.2 mi away

11%146

Florence30.8 mi away

9%127

Columbia94.7 mi away

3%46

Conway28.1 mi away

3%45

Woodfield96.4 mi away

2%25

Charleston103.7 mi away

2%24

Dillon16.6 mi away

2%23

Little Rock19.8 mi away

2%22

North Charleston100.4 mi away

1%19

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%757

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

How far

How far Mullins commutes

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

31%

14%

28%

31%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mullins is balanced between jobs and homes

0.93jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.93 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mullins are

1,289 jobs are based in Mullins. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mullins’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Mullins

1,289 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities39%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month48%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Mullins residents hold

1,385 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month44%

Over $3,333 a month38%

+26%

Jobs based in Mullins, 2013 → 2023: 1,019 → 1,289. 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.