Work & commute · Seven Oaks

Work & commute in Seven Oaks, SC

Most working residents leave Seven Oaks for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Columbia (29%), Lexington (4%) and West Columbia (3%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

391 of 6,389 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 5,998 Seven Oaks residents head out of town to work, 391 work right here, and 11,797 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Seven Oaks.

5,998live here, work elsewhere

391live and work here

11,797work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Seven Oaks goes to work

Columbia13.9 mi away

29%1,859

Seven Oaks (in town)right here

6%391

Lexington5.9 mi away

4%235

West Columbia4.5 mi away

3%216

Cayce8.8 mi away

3%178

Irmo5 mi away

3%174

St. Andrews2 mi away

2%138

Woodfield12.1 mi away

2%99

Greenville88.5 mi away

1%93

Dentsville10.8 mi away

1%80

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%2,926

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

How far

How far Seven Oaks commutes

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

60%

18%

17%

60%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Seven Oaks is a job hub

1.91jobs 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 Seven Oaks are

12,188 jobs are based in Seven Oaks. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Seven Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Seven Oaks

12,188 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Seven Oaks residents hold

6,389 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+33%

Jobs based in Seven Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 9,183 → 12,188. 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.