Edgefield County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Edgefield County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Edgefield County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Edgefield County holds about 0.5% of South Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Edgefield County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,359 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)
Edgefield County	22.8 min	45.7 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,898	1,504
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.

Commute Time Map: South Carolina Counties

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On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Edgefield County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Edgefield County

• Car: 90.2%
• Worked at Home: 6.2%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Public Transportation: 1.5% unusually high
• Other: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Edgefield County: 16089093.0 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually common in Edgefield County: 4.3 times more than the South Carolina average (1.5% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Edgefield County: 52748.2 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Edgefield County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Edgefield 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.3%	1.5%	0.9%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	95.1%	2.3%	0.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	95.3%	2.2%	0.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	2.7%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	94.8%	2.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	94.7%	2.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	94.4%	2.4%	1.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	94.0%	2.4%	1.1%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	93.9%	2.3%	1.4%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.6%	3.2%	2.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	3.6%	2.1%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2020	92.0%	3.6%	2.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	91.6%	5.2%	1.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	90.0%	5.5%	3.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	6.0%	1.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	90.2%	6.2%	1.9%	1.5%	0.1%	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 bottomed out in 2022 at 90.0%. Overall it fell from 95.3% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 5.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Edgefield County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 6.2% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 3.0% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 1.9%.

Commute Start Times in Edgefield County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Edgefield County?

The bars show when commuters in Edgefield 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 Edgefield County6.1% South Carolina5.0%	6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Edgefield County4.5% South Carolina3.7%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Edgefield County9.0% South Carolina4.6%	9.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Edgefield County11.5% South Carolina9.1%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Edgefield County12.9% South Carolina10.5%	12.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Edgefield County12.7% South Carolina15.3%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Edgefield County9.1% South Carolina12.6%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Edgefield County11.5% South Carolina11.1%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Edgefield County1.8% South Carolina5.2%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Edgefield County2.9% South Carolina6.1%	2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Edgefield County4.7% South Carolina2.7%	4.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Edgefield County0.8% South Carolina1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Edgefield County5.2% South Carolina6.3%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Edgefield County7.2% South Carolina6.6%	7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Edgefield County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 19.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in South Carolina: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Edgefield 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 Edgefield 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 Edgefield 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.

• Edgefield County
• South Carolina
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Edgefield County	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Edgefield County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 10 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 Edgefield County now leave 24 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 Edgefield County has moved 8 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Edgefield County in the whole series.

How does Edgefield County's commute time compare?

Metric	Edgefield County	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.2%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Edgefield County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

1.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau