Work & commute · St. Matthews

Work & commute in St. Matthews, SC

Most working residents leave St. Matthews for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Columbia (8%), Orangeburg (8%) and North Charleston (3%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

54 of 901 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 847 St. Matthews residents head out of town to work, 54 work right here, and 538 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Matthews.

847live here, work elsewhere

54live and work here

538work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Matthews goes to work

Columbia26.9 mi away

8%71

Orangeburg12.8 mi away

8%69

St. Matthews (in town)right here

6%54

North Charleston66 mi away

3%30

Charleston74.2 mi away

3%28

Cayce24.9 mi away

3%25

Wilkinson Heights12.2 mi away

2%19

Sumter29.1 mi away

2%15

Lexington34.1 mi away

1%12

Seven Oaks33.6 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

63%568

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

How far

How far St. Matthews commutes

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

20%

25%

31%

24%

20%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Matthews is a commuter town

0.66jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Matthews are

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

Jobs based in St. Matthews

592 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs St. Matthews residents hold

901 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month48%

−32%

Jobs based in St. Matthews, 2013 → 2023: 869 → 592. 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.