Work & commute · Valley Falls

Work & commute in Valley Falls, SC

Most working residents leave Valley Falls for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Spartanburg (16%), Greenville (6%) and Boiling Springs (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

97 of 3,207 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 3,110 Valley Falls residents head out of town to work, 97 work right here, and 4,535 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Valley Falls.

3,110live here, work elsewhere

97live and work here

4,535work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Valley Falls goes to work

Spartanburg4.9 mi away

16%527

Greenville25.2 mi away

6%178

Boiling Springs2.7 mi away

4%128

Valley Falls (in town)right here

3%97

Southern Shops2.1 mi away

3%89

Greer15.6 mi away

3%84

Columbia90.4 mi away

2%55

Wade Hampton22.3 mi away

1%34

Hilltop2.2 mi away

1%32

Mauldin24.6 mi away

1%31

Everywhere elseother towns and states

61%1,952

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

How far

How far Valley Falls commutes

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

50%

24%

18%

50%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Valley Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

1.44jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Valley Falls are

4,632 jobs are based in Valley Falls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Valley Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Valley Falls

4,632 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities37%

Services (health, schools, offices…)41%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Valley Falls residents hold

3,207 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+58%

Jobs based in Valley Falls, 2013 → 2023: 2,923 → 4,632. 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.