Work & commute · Oak Grove

Work & commute in Oak Grove, SC

Most working residents leave Oak Grove for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Columbia (23%), Cayce (6%) and West Columbia (6%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

84 of 5,750 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,666 Oak Grove residents head out of town to work, 84 work right here, and 1,467 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Grove.

5,666live here, work elsewhere

84live and work here

1,467work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Grove goes to work

Columbia15 mi away

23%1,298

Cayce6.8 mi away

6%362

West Columbia3 mi away

6%361

Lexington4.1 mi away

6%332

Seven Oaks4.4 mi away

3%162

Greenville90.8 mi away

1%85

Oak Grove (in town)right here

1%84

St. Andrews5.4 mi away

1%79

Irmo8.6 mi away

1%78

North Charleston96.7 mi away

1%65

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%2,844

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

How far

How far Oak Grove commutes

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

64%

15%

17%

64%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Grove is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Grove are

1,551 jobs are based in Oak Grove. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oak Grove

1,551 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Oak Grove residents hold

5,750 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+12%

Jobs based in Oak Grove, 2013 → 2023: 1,385 → 1,551. 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.