Williamsburg County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Williamsburg County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Williamsburg 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 250 hours, about 10.4 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 7.7 minutes.

Williamsburg County holds about 0.6% of South Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Williamsburg County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,101 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)
Williamsburg County	30.0 min	60.0 min	250 hrs/yr	$7,753	541
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 30.0 minutes to get to work in Williamsburg County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% of counties in South Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Williamsburg County

• Car: 90.6%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Williamsburg County, versus 0.1% in South Carolina.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Williamsburg County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Williamsburg 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.6%	3.8%	1.2%	1.5%	3.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.6%	3.4%	1.0%	2.1%	2.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.6%	3.9%	0.2%	2.3%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.7%	3.4%	0.2%	2.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.3%	2.6%	0.5%	2.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.8%	2.2%	1.0%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.5%	2.9%	1.1%	1.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.7%	2.9%	0.8%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.1%	2.9%	0.9%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.5%	2.3%	0.9%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.8%	2.4%	0.7%	1.1%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.9%	3.9%	0.5%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.4%	4.2%	1.3%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.7%	5.5%	1.2%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.8%	5.3%	1.1%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.6%	6.8%	1.3%	0.7%	0.6%	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 2018 at 94.5%. Overall it rose from 88.6% in 2009 to 90.6% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Williamsburg County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 0.6% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Williamsburg County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Williamsburg County?

The bars show when commuters in Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg County8.0% South Carolina5.0%	8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Williamsburg County5.3% South Carolina3.7%	5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Williamsburg County4.9% South Carolina4.6%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Williamsburg County14.6% South Carolina9.1%	14.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Williamsburg County12.4% South Carolina10.5%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Williamsburg County17.2% South Carolina15.3%	17.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Williamsburg County8.9% South Carolina12.6%	8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Williamsburg County10.7% South Carolina11.1%	10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Williamsburg County1.6% South Carolina5.2%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Williamsburg County5.3% South Carolina6.1%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Williamsburg County1.1% South Carolina2.7%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Williamsburg County0.1% South Carolina1.2%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Williamsburg County6.3% South Carolina6.3%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Williamsburg County3.9% South Carolina6.6%	3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Williamsburg County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across South Carolina. Early starts are more common than in South Carolina: 18.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.2% there. The morning rush looks much like South Carolina's: 49.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.5%) 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 Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg 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	Williamsburg County	South Carolina	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:02 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Williamsburg County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Carolina, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Williamsburg County now leave 29 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Williamsburg County's commute time compare?

Metric	Williamsburg County	South Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.0 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.8%	11.5%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Williamsburg County is 30.0 minutes, longer than the 22.3 minutes in South Carolina.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in South Carolina. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in South Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau