Hanahan Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hanahan, 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 Hanahan: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hanahan spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 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 0.7 minutes.

Hanahan holds about 0.4% of South Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hanahan would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,376 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)
Hanahan	23.0 min	46.0 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,939	6,476
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.

Hanahan Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Hanahan. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hanahan

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Hanahan: 166.8 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Hanahan: 3.5 times less than the South Carolina average (0.4% vs 1.6%).

Public transit is unusually common in Hanahan: 4.4 times more than the South Carolina average (1.6% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hanahan, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hanahan 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	93.8%	1.8%	0.9%	0.7%	1.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	93.9%	2.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	94.1%	2.6%	1.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	93.9%	2.4%	1.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	93.5%	3.1%	0.7%	1.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.5%	3.2%	1.1%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.3%	3.0%	1.0%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.3%	3.0%	1.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.9%	3.8%	1.0%	1.2%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	92.5%	4.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	92.2%	4.7%	0.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%
2020	90.6%	5.3%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	89.1%	6.4%	1.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2022	88.0%	8.0%	1.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	85.2%	10.0%	1.8%	1.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	84.0%	12.0%	1.6%	1.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 94.3%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 84.0% in 2024, down 9.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hanahan: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 10.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Hanahan

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hanahan?

The bars show when commuters in Hanahan 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		15.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hanahan is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across South Carolina. Early starts are less common than in South Carolina: 11.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush looks much like South Carolina's: 50.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.9%) 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 Hanahan, 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 Hanahan 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 Hanahan 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	Hanahan	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hanahan were on the road by 7:42 AM, 20 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across South Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Hanahan now leave 4 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Hanahan has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Hanahan in the whole series.

How does Hanahan's commute time compare?

Metric	Hanahan	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.0%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hanahan is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hanahan, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Hanahan, SC is the smallest of the 4 cities compared here, 21,136 residents against a local median of 123,884. Nothing separates Hanahan, SC sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 9% below the local median at 12.0% against 13.1%. Hanahan, SC has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hanahan, SC	21,136	23.0 min #3/4	12.0% #3/4	7:42 AM #3/4
Goose Creek, SC	42,757	25.2 min	13.1%	7:14 AM
North Charleston, SC	123,884	22.5 min	9.4%	7:21 AM
Charleston, SC	138,300	20.9 min	18.7%	8:01 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hanahan, South Carolina.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Hanahan, South Carolina?

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,939 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Hanahan, South Carolina?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Hanahan, 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.

How common is public transit use in Hanahan, South Carolina?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 1.6% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in South Carolina, making it a realistic option for many workers.