Commuting in Lexington 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 Lexington County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Lexington County 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 7.9 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.
Lexington County holds about 5.8% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 5.9% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Lexington County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,364 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)
Lexington County
22.9 min
45.8 min
191 hrs/yr
$5,911
2,026
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
22.9
minutes to get to work in
Lexington County.
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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.9% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Lexington County
Car:
86.1%
Worked at Home:
11.9%
Other:
0.9%
Walked:
0.8%
Taxi:
0.3%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Lexington County: 15.5 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.4%).
Biking is unusually rare in Lexington County: 6.7 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Lexington County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Lexington 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
Motorcycle
Public Transportation
Bicycle
2009
92.5%
3.7%
2.1%
1.1%
0.0%
0.2%
0.3%
0.2%
2010
92.0%
3.9%
2.4%
0.9%
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
0.3%
2011
92.3%
3.7%
2.4%
0.7%
0.1%
0.2%
0.3%
0.3%
2012
92.1%
3.8%
2.7%
0.7%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.2%
2013
92.2%
4.0%
2.5%
0.6%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.2%
2014
92.0%
3.9%
2.6%
0.6%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.3%
2015
92.2%
4.0%
2.5%
0.7%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
2016
92.3%
3.9%
2.4%
0.7%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
2017
92.8%
3.9%
2.0%
0.7%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
2018
92.9%
4.0%
1.7%
0.7%
0.1%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
2019
93.2%
4.3%
1.4%
0.6%
0.2%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
2020
91.9%
5.8%
1.1%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2021
90.7%
7.2%
0.9%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2022
89.0%
8.8%
1.0%
0.8%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
87.7%
10.2%
1.0%
0.9%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
86.1%
11.9%
0.9%
0.8%
0.3%
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 2019 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 86.1% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Lexington County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 11.9% in 2024, up 8.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in Lexington County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lexington County?
The bars show when commuters in Lexington 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.
Lexington CountySouth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Lexington County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are less common than in South Carolina: 11.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Carolina: 56.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) 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 Lexington 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 Lexington 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 Lexington 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
Lexington County
South Carolina
United States
2009
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:33 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:32 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:30 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:30 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
7:30 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:32 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:32 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Lexington County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). South Carolina followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lexington County now leave 6 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 Lexington County has moved 2 minutes later.
How does Lexington County's commute time compare?
Metric
Lexington County
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
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
11.9%
11.5%
15.0%
Walked
0.8%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Lexington County is 22.9 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.
Lexington County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Lexington County, SC is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 304,957 residents against a local median of 38,435. Where Lexington County, SC breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 87% above the local median of 6.3% at 11.9%.
The counties themselves spread 7.3% on work from home, so Lexington County, SC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lexington County, SC has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Lexington County, South Carolina.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Lexington County, South Carolina?
Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,911 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lexington County, South Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lexington County, South Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Lexington County, South Carolina?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in South Carolina, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).