Avery County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Avery County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Avery County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 4% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Avery County holds about 0.2% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Avery County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,171 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)
Avery County	21.0 min	42.0 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,427	693
North Carolina	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,630	1,609
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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.

Commute Time Map: North Carolina Counties

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On average, it takes 21.0 minutes to get to work in Avery County. That's 6% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.0% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.0%
• Walked: 2.2%
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Avery County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Avery County: 4.3 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Avery County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

How does Avery County's commute time compare?

Metric	Avery County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.0 min	21.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.0%	14.5%	13.4%
Walked	2.2%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Avery County is 21.0 minutes, shorter than the 21.8 minutes in North Carolina.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 2.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau