Commuting in Greenwood 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 Greenwood County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Greenwood County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.8 minutes.
Greenwood County holds about 1.3% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Greenwood County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,701 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)
Greenwood County
16.5 min
32.9 min
137 hrs/yr
$4,252
659
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
16.5
minutes to get to work in
Greenwood County.
That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Fastest county in South Carolina
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Greenwood County
Car:
93.4%
Worked at Home:
4.1%
Other:
1.1%
Walked:
1.0%
Taxi:
0.3%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Greenwood County: 362.1 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Public transit is unusually rare in Greenwood County: 4.5 times less than the South Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.4%).
Commute Mode Trends in Greenwood County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Greenwood 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
Other
Walked
Taxi
Public Transportation
Bicycle
Motorcycle
2009
94.8%
1.7%
0.5%
2.6%
0.0%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2010
95.8%
1.7%
0.3%
1.7%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2011
95.2%
2.5%
0.3%
1.6%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2012
95.3%
2.5%
0.2%
1.6%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
94.9%
2.4%
0.2%
2.0%
0.1%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
95.0%
2.4%
0.1%
1.7%
0.1%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2015
94.4%
2.9%
0.1%
1.8%
0.0%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
2016
94.9%
1.9%
0.5%
2.0%
0.0%
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
2017
94.1%
2.4%
0.5%
2.0%
0.0%
0.4%
0.3%
0.3%
2018
94.6%
2.5%
0.5%
1.6%
0.1%
0.4%
0.2%
0.3%
2019
95.1%
2.4%
0.6%
1.2%
0.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.1%
2020
95.8%
1.8%
0.6%
1.2%
0.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
96.2%
2.4%
0.3%
0.9%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
95.1%
2.7%
0.6%
1.2%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
93.6%
3.9%
1.2%
1.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2024
93.4%
4.1%
1.1%
1.0%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2021 at 96.2%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 93.4% in 2024, down 1.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Greenwood County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 1.0% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Greenwood County
🚦Rush-Hour RegularsThe 2nd-highest share of rush-hour departures among South Carolina's 46 counties: 61.5% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greenwood County?
The bars show when commuters in Greenwood 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.
Greenwood CountySouth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Greenwood County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across South Carolina. Early starts are less common than in South Carolina: 8.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Carolina: 61.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Greenwood 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 Greenwood 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 Greenwood 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
Greenwood County
South Carolina
United States
2009
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:38 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:39 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
7:31 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:27 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:29 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:29 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:31 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:34 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:34 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Greenwood County were on the road by 7:34 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). South Carolina followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Greenwood County now leave 4 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 Greenwood County has moved 7 minutes later.
How does Greenwood County's commute time compare?
Metric
Greenwood County
South Carolina
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
16.5 min
22.3 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
07:30 AM – 07:59 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
4.1%
11.5%
15.0%
Walked
1.0%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Greenwood County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.
0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.
Greenwood County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Greenwood County, SC is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 69,502 residents against a local median of 24,414. The measure that sets Greenwood County, SC apart most is work from home: 4.1%, 34% below the local median of 6.2%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.5 min against a local median of 23.0 min, 28% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 28% below the local median it puts Greenwood County, SC at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.2% on work from home, so Greenwood County, SC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Greenwood County, SC has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Greenwood County, South Carolina.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Greenwood County, South Carolina?
Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,252 at a typical national wage. That's 26% less than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Greenwood County, South Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Greenwood County, South Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How common is public transit use in Greenwood County, South Carolina?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in South Carolina, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most 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).