# Cities in South Carolina by employed residents, 2025

All 25 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employed_residents`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Residents who did any work for pay or profit in the reference week, or were temporarily absent from a job, annual average. People aged 16 and over by place of residence, from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Active-duty military personnel and people living in institutions are excluded.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/south-carolina-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Charleston, SC | 88,499 |
| 2 | Columbia, SC | 67,623 |
| 3 | North Charleston, SC | 64,876 |
| 4 | Mount Pleasant, SC | 50,927 |
| 5 | Greenville, SC | 41,508 |
| 6 | Rock Hill, SC | 38,156 |
| 7 | Summerville, SC | 27,461 |
| 8 | Goose Creek, SC | 24,734 |
| 9 | Greer, SC | 23,496 |
| 10 | Florence, SC | 18,754 |
| 11 | Myrtle Beach, SC | 18,212 |
| 12 | Fort Mill, SC | 17,645 |
| 13 | Bluffton, SC | 16,509 |
| 14 | Spartanburg, SC | 16,415 |
| 15 | Mauldin, SC | 16,026 |
| 16 | Sumter, SC | 15,627 |
| 17 | Hilton Head Island, SC | 15,614 |
| 18 | Simpsonville, SC | 14,566 |
| 19 | Anderson, SC | 14,006 |
| 20 | Aiken, SC | 13,368 |
| 21 | Easley, SC | 13,094 |
| 22 | North Augusta, SC | 12,847 |
| 23 | Lexington, SC | 12,015 |
| 24 | Hanahan, SC | 11,412 |
| 25 | Conway, SC | 10,840 |