Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · AL · GEOID 1319122024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Greenville, Alabama
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 20.6 min one way; 3.5% worked from home, 88.1% drove alone, and 5.6% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip20.6 min±4.0 min MOE
Worked from home3.5%±1.7 pp MOE
Drove alone88.1%±3.6 pp MOE
60+ minute trip5.6%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 city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +0.8 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +2.1 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 city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 88.1%; 0.0% used public transit and 3.5% worked from home.
Each share uses 2,846 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Greenville city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 24th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 76% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 93% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 58% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Greenville city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 2,846 workers age 16+, including 2,746 workers with reported travel time and 100 home workers.
Population estimate7,163± 33 MOE
Workers age 16+2,846± 244 MOE
Workers with travel time2,746± 240 MOE
Estimated home workers100± 49 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 Alabama reports →Comparable Alabama commute records for Greenville city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.