Kershaw County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kershaw County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kershaw County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 7.9 minutes.

Kershaw County holds about 1.3% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 1.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kershaw County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,113 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)
Kershaw County	30.1 min	60.3 min	251 hrs/yr	$7,783	1,168
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.

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On average, it takes 30.1 minutes to get to work in Kershaw County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% of 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 9.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kershaw County

• Car: 89.8%
• Worked at Home: 9.2%
• Other: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Kershaw County: 8.6 times less than the South Carolina average (0.2% vs 1.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Kershaw County: 10.9 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Kershaw County, versus 0.2% in South Carolina.

Few people walk or bike to work in Kershaw County: just 0.4%, 4.7 times below the South Carolina average of 1.8%.

Commute Mode Trends in Kershaw County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kershaw 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	95.1%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2010	94.7%	2.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2011	94.4%	3.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2012	94.8%	3.1%	0.3%	0.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	94.8%	2.9%	0.1%	0.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	94.2%	2.9%	0.6%	0.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	94.1%	3.3%	0.8%	0.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	95.1%	2.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	95.5%	2.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	95.3%	2.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.6%	2.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	93.5%	4.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	92.6%	5.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	91.7%	6.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	90.7%	7.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.8%	9.2%	0.5%	0.2%	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 2017 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, down 5.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kershaw County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 9.2% in 2024, up 6.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Kershaw County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kershaw County?

The bars show when commuters in Kershaw 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	12:00-4:59 AM Kershaw County7.5% South Carolina5.0%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kershaw County6.6% South Carolina3.7%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kershaw County6.1% South Carolina4.6%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kershaw County10.1% South Carolina9.1%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kershaw County11.3% South Carolina10.5%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kershaw County17.0% South Carolina15.3%	17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kershaw County11.3% South Carolina12.6%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kershaw County10.8% South Carolina11.1%	10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kershaw County4.7% South Carolina5.2%	4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kershaw County3.5% South Carolina6.1%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kershaw County1.5% South Carolina2.7%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kershaw County0.3% South Carolina1.2%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kershaw County3.8% South Carolina6.3%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kershaw County5.6% South Carolina6.6%	5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kershaw County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 20.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush looks much like South Carolina's: 50.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.6%) 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 Kershaw 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 Kershaw 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 Kershaw 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Kershaw County	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kershaw County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Kershaw County now leave 23 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 Kershaw County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Kershaw County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kershaw County	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.1 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	9.2%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kershaw County is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau