Work & commute · Pickens

Work & commute in Pickens, SC

Most working residents leave Pickens for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Greenville (14%), Easley (7%) and Anderson (2%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

87 of 1,442 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 1,355 Pickens residents head out of town to work, 87 work right here, and 1,785 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pickens.

1,355live here, work elsewhere

87live and work here

1,785work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pickens goes to work

Greenville20 mi away

14%195

Easley8.4 mi away

7%98

Pickens (in town)right here

6%87

Anderson25.5 mi away

2%33

Clemson15 mi away

2%28

Liberty6.6 mi away

2%27

Powdersville14.1 mi away

2%27

Greer27.4 mi away

1%20

Mauldin24.1 mi away

1%19

Columbia118.6 mi away

1%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

62%891

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

How far

How far Pickens commutes

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

30%

45%

13%

12%

30%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pickens is balanced between jobs and homes

1.30jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pickens are

1,872 jobs are based in Pickens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pickens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pickens

1,872 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Pickens residents hold

1,442 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month50%

−9%

Jobs based in Pickens, 2013 → 2023: 2,053 → 1,872. 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.