Work & commute · Santee

Work & commute in Santee, SC

Most working residents leave Santee for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are North Charleston (8%), Columbia (4%) and Orangeburg (3%). Half commute less than 37 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

28 of 416 working residents

Typical commute

37 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 388 Santee residents head out of town to work, 28 work right here, and 775 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santee.

388live here, work elsewhere

28live and work here

775work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santee goes to work

North Charleston46.1 mi away

8%33

Santee (in town)right here

7%28

Columbia45.1 mi away

4%18

Orangeburg22 mi away

3%14

Summerville37.6 mi away

3%12

Charleston54.2 mi away

3%12

Wilkinson Heights19.8 mi away

2%9

Manning21.1 mi away

2%8

Lexington55 mi away

2%7

Holly Hill11.6 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

65%270

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

How far

How far Santee commutes

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

17%

21%

30%

32%

17%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

30%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santee is a job hub

1.93jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Santee are

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

Jobs based in Santee

803 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less36%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month18%

Jobs Santee residents hold

416 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month40%

−17%

Jobs based in Santee, 2013 → 2023: 967 → 803. 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.