Brunswick County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brunswick County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brunswick County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 1% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Brunswick County holds about 1.4% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brunswick County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,279 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)
Brunswick County	22.1 min	44.1 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,697	2,344
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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 22.1 minutes to get to work in Brunswick County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

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

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 12.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 84.1%
• Worked at Home: 12.7%
• Other: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Brunswick County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Brunswick County: 7.2 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

How does Brunswick County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brunswick County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 min	21.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.7%	14.5%	13.4%
Walked	0.9%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Brunswick County is about the same as in North Carolina.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau