Commuting in Pickens 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 Pickens County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Pickens County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the South Carolina average of 22.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.
Pickens County holds about 2.5% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 2.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Pickens County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,445 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)
Pickens County
23.7 min
47.3 min
197 hrs/yr
$6,112
1,431
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
23.7
minutes to get to work in
Pickens County.
That's 6% 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 10.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Pickens County
Car:
86.3%
Worked at Home:
10.1%
Walked:
1.9%
Other:
0.7%
Public Transportation:
0.6%
Motorcycle:
0.3%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Pickens County, versus 0.2% in South Carolina.
Commute Mode Trends in Pickens County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Pickens 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
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Bicycle
Taxi
2009
92.8%
2.2%
2.9%
0.9%
0.8%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
2010
92.5%
2.5%
2.9%
0.9%
0.9%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
2011
92.2%
2.3%
3.8%
0.6%
0.6%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2012
93.0%
2.3%
3.1%
0.4%
0.5%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
2013
93.1%
2.2%
3.0%
0.4%
0.6%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
2014
93.0%
2.1%
3.1%
0.5%
0.7%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2015
93.3%
2.2%
2.5%
0.5%
1.1%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2016
93.4%
2.7%
1.9%
0.5%
1.0%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
2017
92.9%
3.2%
1.8%
0.5%
1.1%
0.1%
0.4%
0.0%
2018
92.2%
4.1%
1.9%
0.4%
1.0%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
2019
91.4%
4.6%
2.1%
0.4%
1.1%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
2020
89.6%
6.7%
1.9%
0.5%
0.8%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
2021
88.4%
7.5%
2.1%
0.6%
1.0%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
2022
87.5%
8.2%
2.1%
0.8%
0.9%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
2023
86.7%
9.1%
2.1%
0.6%
1.0%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
2024
86.3%
10.1%
1.9%
0.7%
0.6%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 93.4%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 86.3% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Pickens County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 10.1% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.9% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Pickens County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pickens County?
The bars show when commuters in Pickens 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.
Pickens CountySouth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Pickens County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.2% 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 looks much like South Carolina's: 50.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Pickens 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 Pickens 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 Pickens 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
Pickens County
South Carolina
United States
2009
7:47 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:48 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:48 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:46 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:46 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:44 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:39 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:41 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:37 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:36 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:36 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:35 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:35 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:38 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:37 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Pickens County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:47 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pickens County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).
How does Pickens County's commute time compare?
Metric
Pickens County
South Carolina
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
23.7 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
10.1%
11.5%
15.0%
Walked
1.9%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.6%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Pickens County is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.
0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in South Carolina.
Pickens County, SC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Pickens County, SC is typical in size for this group, 134,527 residents against a local median of 118,522, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Nothing separates Pickens County, SC sharply from the counties 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 one-way commute, 12% above the local median at 23.7 min against 21.0 min. Pickens County, SC has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Pickens County, South Carolina.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Pickens County, South Carolina?
Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,112 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical South Carolina commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Pickens County, South Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pickens 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.
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).