Work & commute · Ware Shoals

Work & commute in Ware Shoals, SC

Most working residents leave Ware Shoals for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Greenwood (17%), Abbeville (4%) and Greenville (3%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17 of 692 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 675 Ware Shoals residents head out of town to work, 17 work right here, and 359 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ware Shoals.

675live here, work elsewhere

17live and work here

359work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ware Shoals goes to work

Greenwood14.2 mi away

17%121

Abbeville16.4 mi away

4%29

Greenville31.8 mi away

3%21

Columbia80.5 mi away

3%19

Ware Shoals (in town)right here

2%17

Anderson24.6 mi away

2%14

Fountain Inn21.5 mi away

1%7

Newberry37.4 mi away

1%7

Mauldin27.4 mi away

1%7

Simpsonville23.6 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

64%444

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

How far

How far Ware Shoals commutes

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

11%

53%

16%

20%

11%Under 10 mi

53%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ware Shoals is a commuter town

0.54jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Ware Shoals are

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

Jobs based in Ware Shoals

376 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less34%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Ware Shoals residents hold

692 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month44%

+52%

Jobs based in Ware Shoals, 2013 → 2023: 247 → 376. 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.