Work & commute · St. Andrews

Work & commute in St. Andrews, SC

Most working residents leave St. Andrews for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Columbia (31%), Seven Oaks (4%) and West Columbia (3%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

272 of 8,525 working residents

Typical commute

8 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 8,253 St. Andrews residents head out of town to work, 272 work right here, and 7,548 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Andrews.

8,253live here, work elsewhere

272live and work here

7,548work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Andrews goes to work

Columbia11.9 mi away

31%2,625

Seven Oaks2 mi away

4%350

West Columbia4.2 mi away

3%273

St. Andrews (in town)right here

3%272

Lexington7.8 mi away

3%216

Cayce7.9 mi away

2%197

Irmo6.3 mi away

2%183

Dentsville8.8 mi away

2%140

Woodfield10 mi away

1%125

Forest Acres7.7 mi away

1%108

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%4,036

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

How far

How far St. Andrews commutes

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

62%

16%

18%

62%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Andrews is balanced between jobs and homes

0.92jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.92 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Andrews are

7,820 jobs are based in St. Andrews. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Andrews’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Andrews

7,820 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)86%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs St. Andrews residents hold

8,525 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

+30%

Jobs based in St. Andrews, 2013 → 2023: 6,037 → 7,820. 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.