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Commuting in McCormick 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 McCormick County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in McCormick County spend about 68 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 282 hours, about 11.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 11.6 minutes.

McCormick County holds about 0.2% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in McCormick County would save about 113 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,498 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)
McCormick County 33.9 min 67.7 min 282 hrs/yr $8,745 1,382
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
  1. Greenwood County (16.5 min)
  2. Sumter County (18.2 min)
  3. Florence County (18.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in South Carolina
  1. McCormick County (33.9 min)
  2. Fairfield County (30.8 min)
  3. Chester County (30.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

McCormick County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 33.9 minutes to get to work in McCormick County. That's 51% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in South Carolina

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 11.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in McCormick County

  • Car: 87.0%
  • Worked at Home: 11.4%
  • Walked: 1.1%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Taxi: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in McCormick County: 1888435.2 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in McCormick County: 920093.3 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in McCormick County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in McCormick 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 Walked Other Taxi Public Transportation Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 96.1% 2.7% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 96.3% 3.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 96.0% 3.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 93.7% 6.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 95.5% 4.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 94.4% 4.0% 0.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 94.7% 2.8% 1.5% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.7% 3.2% 1.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 95.7% 1.9% 1.4% 0.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 95.1% 2.2% 1.4% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 95.4% 2.8% 1.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 96.6% 2.3% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 95.4% 2.9% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 92.5% 5.9% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.0% 10.1% 1.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.0% 11.4% 1.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 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 2020 at 96.6%. Overall it fell from 96.1% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 9.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in McCormick County: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 11.4% in 2024, up 8.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in McCormick County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among South Carolina's 46 counties: 58.6% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in McCormick County?

The bars show when commuters in McCormick 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
3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM
23.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in McCormick County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are less common than in South Carolina: 8.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Carolina: 58.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 McCormick 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 McCormick 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 McCormick 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 McCormick County South Carolina United States
2009 7:25 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:28 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:32 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:36 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:37 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:28 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:26 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:31 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:33 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:26 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:31 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in McCormick County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across South Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in McCormick County now leave 7 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 McCormick County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does McCormick County's commute time compare?

Metric McCormick County South Carolina US Average
Avg. Commute Time 33.9 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 11.4% 11.5% 15.0%
Walked 1.1% 1.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in McCormick County is 33.9 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

McCormick County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

McCormick County, SC is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 9,759 residents against a local median of 27,456. McCormick County, SC's work from home, at 11.4%, runs 106% above the 5.5% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 33.9 min against a local median of 22.8 min, 48% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 48% above the local median it puts McCormick County, SC at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.9% on work from home, so McCormick County, SC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. McCormick County, SC has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
McCormick County, SC 9,759 33.9 min #6/6 11.4% #1/6 7:31 AM #5/6
Lincoln County, GA 7,854 30.1 min 5.5% 7:26 AM
Greenwood County, SC 69,502 16.5 min 4.1% 7:34 AM
Abbeville County, SC 24,414 22.7 min 4.2% 7:26 AM
Columbia County, GA 162,330 23.1 min 11.0% 7:31 AM
Edgefield County, SC 27,456 22.8 min 6.2% 7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in McCormick County, South Carolina.

What is the financial impact of commuting in McCormick County, South Carolina?

Commuters here spend an estimated 282 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,745 at a typical national wage. That's 52% more than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in McCormick County, South Carolina?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in McCormick 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 McCormick 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).