Commuting in Newberry 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 Newberry County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Newberry County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.
Newberry County holds about 0.7% of South Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Newberry County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,266 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)
Newberry County
21.9 min
43.9 min
183 hrs/yr
$5,664
763
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
21.9
minutes to get to work in
Newberry County.
That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 73% 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 5.3% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Newberry County
Car:
91.3%
Worked at Home:
5.3%
Walked:
1.5%
Other:
1.1%
Motorcycle:
0.6%unusually high
Taxi:
0.2%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Newberry County: 4.8 times more than the South Carolina average (0.6% vs 0.1%).
Public transit is unusually rare in Newberry County: 11.5 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.4%).
Biking is unusually rare in Newberry County: 6.3 times less than the South Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Newberry County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Newberry 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
Motorcycle
Taxi
Public Transportation
Bicycle
2009
94.9%
2.2%
1.1%
0.3%
0.3%
0.4%
0.2%
0.6%
2010
95.0%
2.4%
1.0%
0.2%
0.3%
0.5%
0.2%
0.4%
2011
94.4%
2.4%
1.3%
0.2%
0.2%
0.5%
0.7%
0.3%
2012
95.4%
1.9%
1.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.2%
0.7%
0.1%
2013
96.2%
1.8%
0.9%
0.5%
0.1%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
2014
95.5%
2.2%
1.4%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
2015
95.0%
2.3%
1.5%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
0.7%
0.0%
2016
95.2%
2.2%
2.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2017
94.9%
2.2%
2.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2018
94.0%
2.0%
3.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2019
94.1%
1.8%
3.1%
0.2%
0.1%
0.5%
0.1%
0.3%
2020
93.9%
2.3%
2.7%
0.4%
0.0%
0.5%
0.0%
0.3%
2021
93.9%
3.1%
1.6%
0.3%
0.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.3%
2022
93.3%
3.4%
1.8%
0.5%
0.0%
0.6%
0.0%
0.4%
2023
91.9%
4.1%
1.8%
0.6%
0.8%
0.6%
0.0%
0.2%
2024
91.3%
5.3%
1.5%
1.1%
0.6%
0.2%
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 2013 at 96.2%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 91.3% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Newberry County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).
Riding a motorcycle overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.
Walking peaked at 3.7% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 1.5%.
Commute Start Times in Newberry County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Newberry County?
The bars show when commuters in Newberry 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.
Newberry CountySouth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Newberry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush looks much like South Carolina's: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Newberry 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 Newberry 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 Newberry 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
Newberry County
South Carolina
United States
2009
7:23 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:24 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:22 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:25 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:18 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:17 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:13 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:16 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:11 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:15 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:19 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Newberry County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Newberry County now leave 19 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 Newberry County has moved 2 minutes later.
How does Newberry County's commute time compare?
Metric
Newberry County
South Carolina
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
21.9 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
5.3%
11.5%
15.0%
Walked
1.5%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Newberry County is about the same as in South Carolina.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.
Newberry County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Newberry County, SC is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 38,435 residents against a local median of 26,885. Where Newberry County, SC breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 16% below the local median of 6.2% at 5.3%.
The counties themselves spread 8.5% on work from home, so Newberry County, SC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Newberry County, SC has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Newberry County, South Carolina.
Is living in Newberry County, South Carolina good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 183 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,664 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Newberry County, South Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Newberry 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.
Do people use public transit in Newberry 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.
Which counties in South Carolina have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).