Union County, SC is the only county within the Catawba Regional Development District that falls within the Union / Spartanburg Commuter Shed.

For the purposes of determining commuter patterns within the Union / Spartanburg Commuter Shed, two factors were explored: where individuals living in Union County work, and, conversely, where individuals working in Union County live.

For those individuals living or working within Union County in 2019, there were 4,117 individuals who both worked and lived within the district, 8,085 who lived in the district and commuted out for their primary job, and 4,368 who lived outside the district yet commuted in for their primary job.