Average for workers who did not work from home.
COUNTY · SC · GEOID 450452024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Greenville County, South Carolina
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 23.4 min one way; 14.4% worked from home, 74.5% drove alone, and 3.8% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip23.4 min±0.6 min MOE
Worked from home14.4%±0.7 pp MOE
Drove alone74.5%±0.9 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.8%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Greenville County's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.2 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +5.3 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Greenville County residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 74.5%; 0.2% used public transit and 14.4% worked from home.
Each share uses 268,060 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Greenville County compares with similar-size countys
This county's mean commute is at the 21th percentile among covered 500k+ countys; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 79% of covered countys in the 500k+ population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 73% of covered countys in the 500k+ population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 99% of covered countys in the 500k+ population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 84% of covered countys in the 500k+ population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Greenville County's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 268,060 workers age 16+, including 229,483 workers with reported travel time and 38,577 home workers.
Population estimate548,166± — MOE
Workers age 16+268,060± 2,568 MOE
Workers with travel time229,483± 2,788 MOE
Estimated home workers38,577± 1,968 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All South Carolina reports →Comparable South Carolina commute records for Greenville County
No other South Carolina county in the 500k+ population band met the same publication rule in this dataset.