Greer Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Greer: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Greer spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 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.

Greer holds about 0.6% of South Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Greer would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,368 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)
Greer	22.9 min	45.8 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,919	3,383
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.

Greer Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.9 minutes to get to work in Greer. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 11.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Greer

• Car: 85.0%
• Worked at Home: 11.8%
• Other: 1.5%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Greer: 7.8 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Greer: 3.2 times less than the South Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Greer: 4.6 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Greer, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Greer 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.0%	2.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	95.4%	2.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	94.5%	2.5%	0.8%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	94.5%	2.5%	0.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.4%	2.7%	0.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.7%	2.3%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.8%	2.5%	0.4%	2.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.4%	2.7%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	3.4%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.8%	4.3%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.3%	4.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	91.2%	6.4%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.2%	9.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.8%	9.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	86.8%	10.6%	1.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.0%	11.8%	1.5%	1.3%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2010 at 95.4%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 85.0% in 2024, down 10.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Greer: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 11.8% in 2024, up 9.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook taking a taxi to become the 4th most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.6% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Greer

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greer?

The bars show when commuters in Greer 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 Greer4.5% South Carolina5.0%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Greer2.7% South Carolina3.7%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Greer4.8% South Carolina4.6%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Greer9.4% South Carolina9.1%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Greer7.9% South Carolina10.5%	7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Greer16.9% South Carolina15.3%	16.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Greer12.0% South Carolina12.6%	12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Greer13.2% South Carolina11.1%	13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Greer6.4% South Carolina5.2%	6.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Greer5.3% South Carolina6.1%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Greer2.6% South Carolina2.7%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Greer1.4% South Carolina1.2%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Greer4.0% South Carolina6.3%	4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Greer8.8% South Carolina6.6%	8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Greer is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are less common than in South Carolina: 12.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush looks much like South Carolina's: 50.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Greer, 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 Greer 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 Greer 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.

• Greer
• South Carolina
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Greer	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Greer were on the road by 7:40 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). South Carolina followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Greer now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Greer's commute time compare?

Metric	Greer	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 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	11.8%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Greer is 22.9 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau