Calhoun County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Calhoun County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Calhoun County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 232 hours, about 9.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Calhoun County holds about 0.3% of South Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Calhoun County would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,876 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)
Calhoun County	27.8 min	55.7 min	232 hrs/yr	$7,190	578
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.

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On average, it takes 27.8 minutes to get to work in Calhoun County. That's 24% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% of counties in South Carolina

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Calhoun County

• Car: 85.8%
• Worked at Home: 10.5%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Calhoun County, versus 0.1% in South Carolina.

Public transit is unusually rare in Calhoun County: 11.0 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Calhoun County, versus 0.2% in South Carolina.

Biking is essentially absent in Calhoun County, versus 0.2% in South Carolina.

Commute Mode Trends in Calhoun County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Calhoun 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.

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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.4%	7.3%	0.8%	4.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	86.9%	6.7%	0.8%	4.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	87.3%	5.5%	0.8%	4.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	88.6%	4.5%	0.4%	4.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	90.1%	3.3%	1.4%	4.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	91.4%	2.9%	1.2%	3.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	92.2%	3.3%	1.5%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.5%	3.7%	1.3%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	3.1%	1.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.7%	3.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.4%	2.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.3%	2.4%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	95.2%	2.9%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	5.2%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	86.5%	9.6%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2024	85.8%	10.5%	3.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 96.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 85.4% in 2009 and 85.8% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Calhoun County: its share of workers rose from 7.3% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Calhoun County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Calhoun County?

The bars show when commuters in Calhoun 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.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Calhoun County1.1% South Carolina5.0%	1.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Calhoun County2.8% South Carolina3.7%	2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Calhoun County6.2% South Carolina4.6%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Calhoun County14.5% South Carolina9.1%	14.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Calhoun County16.3% South Carolina10.5%	16.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Calhoun County14.4% South Carolina15.3%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Calhoun County12.1% South Carolina12.6%	12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Calhoun County11.0% South Carolina11.1%	11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Calhoun County4.9% South Carolina5.2%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Calhoun County6.4% South Carolina6.1%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Calhoun County0.2% South Carolina2.7%	0.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Calhoun County0.0% South Carolina1.2%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Calhoun County4.9% South Carolina6.3%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Calhoun County5.4% South Carolina6.6%	5.4%

Calhoun County South Carolina Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Calhoun County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across South Carolina. Early starts are less common than in South Carolina: 10.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Carolina: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.8%) 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 Calhoun 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 Calhoun 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 Calhoun 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Calhoun County	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Calhoun County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Calhoun County now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Calhoun County's commute time compare?

Metric	Calhoun County	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.8 min	22.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.5%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Calhoun County is 27.8 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau