Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · SC · GEOID 45530802024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Orangeburg, South Carolina
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 24.3 min one way; 11.6% worked from home, 71.8% drove alone, and 10.7% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip24.3 min±4.7 min MOE
Worked from home11.6%±3.7 pp MOE
Drove alone71.8%±5.7 pp MOE
60+ minute trip10.7%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 Orangeburg city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +1.8 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +2.7 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 Orangeburg city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 71.8%; 0.8% used public transit and 11.6% worked from home.
Each share uses 4,603 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Orangeburg city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 46th 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 54% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 51% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 63% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 73% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Orangeburg city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 4,603 workers age 16+, including 4,071 workers with reported travel time and 532 home workers.
Population estimate13,253± 23 MOE
Workers age 16+4,603± 467 MOE
Workers with travel time4,071± 456 MOE
Estimated home workers532± 180 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 Orangeburg city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.