Commuting in Barnwell County, South Carolina: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.
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Commute Time Burden in Barnwell County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Barnwell County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.
Barnwell County holds about 0.4% of South Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Barnwell County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,448 at the same national wage assumption used above.
Area
One-Way Commute
Daily Round-Trip
Yearly Time Spent
Estimated Yearly Cost
Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Barnwell County
23.7 min
47.4 min
197 hrs/yr
$6,121
475
South Carolina
22.3 min
44.5 min
186 hrs/yr
$5,753
1,499
United States
22.4 min
44.8 min
187 hrs/yr
$5,790
1,355
The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it
as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day
on non-highway roads, come from proprietary
Ticon and
TrafficZoom data.
On average, it takes
23.7
minutes to get to work in
Barnwell County.
That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Barnwell County
Car:
92.0%
Worked at Home:
4.2%
Public Transportation:
2.2%unusually high
Walked:
0.6%
Other:
0.5%
Taxi:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
0.2%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%
Public transit is unusually common in Barnwell County: 6.1 times more than the South Carolina average (2.2% vs 0.4%).
Commute Mode Trends in Barnwell County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Barnwell County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.
Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show commute mode data by year
Year
Car
Worked at Home
Public Transportation
Walked
Other
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
93.0%
2.5%
1.2%
2.3%
0.7%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
2010
93.9%
2.3%
0.7%
2.4%
0.6%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
2011
92.7%
2.5%
0.9%
3.2%
0.5%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
2012
94.1%
2.2%
0.3%
2.8%
0.5%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2013
94.6%
1.4%
0.2%
2.9%
0.8%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2014
95.6%
1.0%
0.0%
2.5%
0.8%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2015
95.5%
1.3%
0.1%
2.2%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
96.1%
1.7%
0.1%
1.3%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
95.4%
1.7%
0.3%
1.5%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
96.5%
1.6%
0.3%
1.1%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
96.7%
1.6%
0.3%
1.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
93.9%
2.2%
2.2%
1.4%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
93.7%
1.7%
2.4%
1.2%
0.8%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
93.6%
2.1%
2.4%
0.9%
0.6%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2023
92.9%
3.1%
2.4%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.2%
2024
92.0%
4.2%
2.2%
0.6%
0.5%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 96.7%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 92.0% in 2024, down 1.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Barnwell County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 4.2% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).
Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Barnwell County
🌅Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among South Carolina's 46 counties: 24.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barnwell County?
The bars show when commuters in Barnwell County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show South Carolina for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.
Barnwell CountySouth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Barnwell County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 24.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush looks much like South Carolina's: 48.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.3%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.
When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.
See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Barnwell County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.
Is Barnwell County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024
Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Barnwell County next to South Carolina and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Barnwell County
South Carolina
United States
2009
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:17 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:15 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:12 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:11 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:18 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:19 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:13 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:16 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:16 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:08 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:05 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:07 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:07 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:07 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:11 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Barnwell County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Barnwell County now leave 27 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Barnwell County has moved 3 minutes later.
How does Barnwell County's commute time compare?
Metric
Barnwell County
South Carolina
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
23.7 min
22.3 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
4.2%
11.5%
15.0%
Walked
0.6%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
2.2%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Barnwell County is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.
2.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.
Barnwell County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Barnwell County, SC is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,521 residents against a local median of 14,130. The measure that sets Barnwell County, SC apart most is work from home: 4.2%, 41% below the local median of 7.1%.
The counties themselves spread 7.5% on work from home, so Barnwell County, SC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Barnwell County, SC has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Barnwell County, South Carolina.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Barnwell County, South Carolina?
Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,121 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Barnwell County, South Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Barnwell County, South Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How common is public transit use in Barnwell County, South Carolina?
Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 2.2% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in South Carolina, making it a realistic option for many workers.
How do commute times compare across counties in South Carolina?
Among counties in South Carolina, the shortest average commutes are in Greenwood County (16.5 min), Sumter County (18.2 min), Florence County (18.3 min). The longest are in McCormick County (33.9 min), Fairfield County (30.8 min), Chester County (30.6 min).