Hampton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hampton 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 Hampton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hampton County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 255 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

Hampton County holds about 0.3% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hampton County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,160 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)
Hampton County	30.6 min	61.2 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,901	327
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

Fastest commutes among counties in South Carolina

Greenwood County (16.5 min)
Sumter County (18.2 min)
Florence County (18.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in South Carolina

McCormick County (33.9 min)
Fairfield County (30.8 min)
Chester County (30.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Hampton County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.6 minutes to get to work in Hampton County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in South Carolina

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 3.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hampton County

Public transit is unusually common in Hampton County: 3.2 times more than the South Carolina average (1.2% vs 0.4%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Hampton County: 3.7 times less than the South Carolina average (3.1% vs 11.5%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hampton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hampton 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Motorcycle	Taxi	Other	Bicycle
2009	93.9%	0.7%	2.3%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	93.5%	1.0%	1.3%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	92.4%	0.7%	0.9%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2012	92.6%	1.4%	1.3%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2013	90.4%	2.1%	2.3%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%
2014	91.2%	1.9%	2.1%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%	1.3%	0.1%
2015	92.6%	1.5%	1.3%	2.2%	0.4%	0.0%	1.9%	0.1%
2016	94.1%	1.9%	1.4%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%
2017	93.2%	1.9%	1.2%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%
2018	96.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2019	96.7%	0.5%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2020	96.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2021	96.1%	1.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2022	96.6%	2.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	95.9%	2.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2024	94.5%	3.1%	1.2%	0.7%	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 was highest in 2020 at 96.8% and lowest in 2013 at 90.4%. Overall it rose from 93.9% in 2009 to 94.5% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hampton County: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 3.1% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.7% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Hampton County

Early BirdThe earliest start among South Carolina's 46 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:57 AM.
Dawn PatrolThe 2nd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among South Carolina's 46 counties: 27.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hampton County?

The bars show when commuters in Hampton 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		6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		11.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		5.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hampton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 27.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in South Carolina: 42.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.9%) 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 Hampton 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 Hampton 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 Hampton 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	Hampton County	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:00 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:57 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hampton County were on the road by 6:57 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hampton County now leave 41 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 Hampton County has moved 32 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Hampton County in the whole series.

How does Hampton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hampton County	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.6 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	3.1%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hampton County is 30.6 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hampton County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Hampton County, SC is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 18,254 residents against a local median of 14,130. Hampton County, SC's work from home, at 3.1%, runs 56% below the 7.1% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 30.6 min against a local median of 23.7 min, 29% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 29% above the local median it puts Hampton County, SC at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.1% on work from home, so Hampton County, SC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hampton County, SC has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hampton County, SC	18,254	30.6 min #5/6	3.1% #6/6	6:57 AM #1/6
Allendale County, SC	7,661	23.7 min	3.5%	7:02 AM
Jasper County, SC	32,186	30.3 min	8.6%	7:24 AM
Bamberg County, SC	13,042	22.8 min	7.2%	7:14 AM
Effingham County, GA	69,143	31.3 min	6.5%	7:10 AM
Screven County, GA	14,130	23.6 min	7.1%	7:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hampton County, South Carolina.

Is commuting expensive in Hampton County, South Carolina?

Commuters here spend an estimated 255 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,901 at a typical national wage. That's 37% more than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Hampton County, South Carolina?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hampton 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Hampton County, South Carolina?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 1.2% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in South Carolina, making it a realistic option for many 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).