Work & commute · Ninety Six

Work & commute in Ninety Six, SC

Most working residents leave Ninety Six for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Greenwood (27%), Columbia (3%) and Greenville (2%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

51 of 891 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 840 Ninety Six residents head out of town to work, 51 work right here, and 327 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ninety Six.

840live here, work elsewhere

51live and work here

327work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ninety Six goes to work

Greenwood7.7 mi away

27%238

Ninety Six (in town)right here

6%51

Columbia65 mi away

3%23

Greenville50 mi away

2%22

Abbeville20.3 mi away

2%14

Laurens23 mi away

1%7

Aiken47.3 mi away

1%6

North Augusta44.8 mi away

1%6

North Charleston142.1 mi away

1%6

Coronaca7.4 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%512

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

How far

How far Ninety Six commutes

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

54%

13%

14%

19%

54%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ninety Six is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Ninety Six are

378 jobs are based in Ninety Six. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ninety Six’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Ninety Six

378 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Ninety Six residents hold

891 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month48%

−13%

Jobs based in Ninety Six, 2013 → 2023: 432 → 378. 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.