Commuting in Georgetown 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 Georgetown County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Georgetown County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.
Georgetown County holds about 1.2% of South Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Georgetown County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,344 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)
Georgetown County
22.7 min
45.4 min
189 hrs/yr
$5,861
1,198
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
22.7
minutes to get to work in
Georgetown County.
That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Georgetown County
Car:
86.6%
Worked at Home:
10.1%
Walked:
0.9%
Motorcycle:
0.8%unusually high
Other:
0.6%
Taxi:
0.5%
Public Transportation:
0.4%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Georgetown County: 6.4 times more than the South Carolina average (0.8% vs 0.1%).
Biking is essentially absent in Georgetown County, versus 0.2% in South Carolina.
Commute Mode Trends in Georgetown County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Georgetown 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
Walked
Motorcycle
Other
Taxi
Public Transportation
Bicycle
2009
91.6%
3.7%
1.1%
0.0%
1.7%
0.1%
1.3%
0.4%
2010
91.2%
4.2%
0.9%
0.0%
2.5%
0.0%
1.1%
0.1%
2011
90.7%
4.3%
1.2%
0.0%
2.1%
0.0%
1.1%
0.5%
2012
91.2%
4.4%
1.4%
0.0%
2.3%
0.0%
0.4%
0.2%
2013
91.0%
4.1%
1.0%
0.2%
2.2%
0.0%
0.8%
0.7%
2014
91.0%
4.4%
1.3%
0.2%
2.1%
0.1%
0.4%
0.5%
2015
92.0%
4.2%
1.3%
0.2%
1.2%
0.1%
0.6%
0.5%
2016
92.4%
4.2%
0.9%
0.1%
1.1%
0.1%
0.7%
0.5%
2017
92.6%
4.1%
0.7%
0.2%
1.2%
0.1%
0.7%
0.4%
2018
90.9%
6.0%
1.3%
0.1%
0.9%
0.1%
0.7%
0.1%
2019
89.5%
6.9%
1.6%
0.1%
1.0%
0.1%
0.8%
0.1%
2020
90.1%
7.3%
1.2%
0.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.6%
0.2%
2021
88.4%
8.0%
1.5%
0.4%
0.6%
0.3%
0.8%
0.1%
2022
86.8%
9.1%
1.8%
0.8%
0.5%
0.4%
0.6%
0.1%
2023
86.3%
9.6%
1.7%
0.8%
0.6%
0.6%
0.3%
0.1%
2024
86.6%
10.1%
0.9%
0.8%
0.6%
0.5%
0.4%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2017 at 92.6% and lowest in 2023 at 86.3%. Overall it fell from 91.6% in 2009 to 86.6% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points.
Working from home gained the most ground in Georgetown County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 10.1% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).
Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Georgetown County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Georgetown County?
The bars show when commuters in Georgetown 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.
Georgetown CountySouth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Georgetown County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 15.2% 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 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Georgetown 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 Georgetown 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 Georgetown 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
Georgetown County
South Carolina
United States
2009
7:38 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:45 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:45 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:39 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:36 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:40 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:35 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:35 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:34 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:32 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:27 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:26 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Georgetown County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Georgetown 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 Georgetown County has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Georgetown County in the whole series.
How does Georgetown County's commute time compare?
Metric
Georgetown County
South Carolina
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
22.7 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
10.1%
11.5%
15.0%
Walked
0.9%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.4%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Georgetown County is 22.7 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.
The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as South Carolina. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.
Georgetown County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Georgetown County, SC is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 64,818 residents against a local median of 137,115. Where Georgetown County, SC breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 18% below the local median of 27.8 min at 22.7 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
The counties themselves spread 11.7 min on one-way commute, so Georgetown County, SC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Georgetown County, SC has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Georgetown County, South Carolina.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Georgetown County, South Carolina?
Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,861 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Georgetown County, South Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Which counties in South Carolina have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).