Work & commute · Piedmont

Work & commute in Piedmont, SC

Most working residents leave Piedmont for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Greenville (21%), Powdersville (3%) and Mauldin (3%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

42 of 2,380 working residents

Typical commute

12 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 2,338 Piedmont residents head out of town to work, 42 work right here, and 853 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Piedmont.

2,338live here, work elsewhere

42live and work here

853work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Piedmont goes to work

Greenville10.8 mi away

21%496

Powdersville5.4 mi away

3%76

Mauldin10.5 mi away

3%74

Gantt6.4 mi away

3%63

Anderson16.2 mi away

2%54

Easley10.3 mi away

2%47

Piedmont (in town)right here

2%42

Wade Hampton14.4 mi away

2%38

Columbia100.6 mi away

1%35

Simpsonville12.1 mi away

1%34

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%1,421

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

How far

How far Piedmont commutes

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

33%

48%

12%

33%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Piedmont is a commuter town

0.38jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Piedmont are

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

Jobs based in Piedmont

895 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)56%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)32%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Piedmont residents hold

2,380 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+62%

Jobs based in Piedmont, 2013 → 2023: 551 → 895. 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.