Clarendon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clarendon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clarendon County spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 240 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Clarendon County holds about 0.6% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clarendon County would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,974 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)
Clarendon County	28.8 min	57.6 min	240 hrs/yr	$7,435	842
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 28.8 minutes to get to work in Clarendon County. That's 28% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in South Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clarendon County

• Car: 90.4%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 1.3%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Clarendon County: 3.7 times less than the South Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Clarendon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clarendon 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.7%	3.0%	1.0%	3.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.7%	4.1%	1.6%	4.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.5%	4.1%	1.4%	3.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.2%	3.5%	2.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.8%	3.4%	2.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.1%	2.8%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.4%	2.6%	1.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.2%	3.2%	1.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.9%	2.8%	1.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.2%	3.2%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	93.7%	3.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.4%	4.4%	1.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	92.5%	4.3%	1.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	5.9%	1.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.6%	5.1%	1.7%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.4%	6.5%	1.5%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 94.4% and lowest in 2010 at 89.7%. Overall it fell from 91.7% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, down 1.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clarendon County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Clarendon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clarendon County?

The bars show when commuters in Clarendon 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 Clarendon County6.7% South Carolina5.0%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Clarendon County4.8% South Carolina3.7%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Clarendon County4.6% South Carolina4.6%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Clarendon County8.4% South Carolina9.1%	8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Clarendon County8.5% South Carolina10.5%	8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Clarendon County19.4% South Carolina15.3%	19.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Clarendon County10.5% South Carolina12.6%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Clarendon County14.1% South Carolina11.1%	14.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Clarendon County2.7% South Carolina5.2%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Clarendon County4.0% South Carolina6.1%	4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Clarendon County2.4% South Carolina2.7%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Clarendon County1.6% South Carolina1.2%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Clarendon County5.5% South Carolina6.3%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Clarendon County6.6% South Carolina6.6%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Clarendon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Carolina: 52.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 Clarendon 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 Clarendon 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 Clarendon 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	Clarendon County	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clarendon County were on the road by 7:26 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across South Carolina, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Clarendon County now leave 12 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 Clarendon County has moved 7 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Clarendon County in the whole series.

How does Clarendon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clarendon County	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.5%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Clarendon County is 28.8 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau