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Counties With the Shortest Commute in South Carolina (2026)

Greenwood has the lowest commute time of any county in South Carolina, at 20.3 min, followed by Florence and Darlington. Source: Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: Census ACS 5-Year

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Shortest counties for commute time in South Carolina

Top 25 of 46 counties with data.

Ranked by avg commute time (Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024), lowest first.

Shortest counties for commute time in South Carolina
RankCountyValue
1Greenwood20.3 min
2Florence22.0 min
3Darlington22.5 min
4Sumter23.0 min
5Horry23.1 min
6Richland23.1 min
7Greenville23.4 min
8Beaufort23.6 min
9Oconee23.9 min
10Chesterfield24.5 min
11Abbeville24.7 min
12Aiken25.0 min
13Charleston25.1 min
14Cherokee25.1 min
15Spartanburg25.2 min
16Laurens25.2 min
17Edgefield25.6 min
18Lexington26.0 min
19Dillon26.2 min
20Calhoun26.4 min
21Pickens26.4 min
22Anderson26.5 min
23Marlboro26.9 min
24Newberry27.2 min
25Barnwell27.2 min

How this ranking works

This page ranks South Carolina counties by avg commute time, sorted so the shortest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For commute time, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh commute time against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of avg commute time.

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