Carteret County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Carteret County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carteret County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting.

That is 13% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Carteret County holds about 0.7% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carteret County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,951 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)
Carteret County	18.9 min	37.8 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,878	1,420
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 18.9 minutes to get to work in Carteret County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 75% of counties in North Carolina

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 10.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 86.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.3%
• Other: 1.1%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

How does Carteret County's commute time compare?

Metric	Carteret County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 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	10.3%	14.5%	13.4%
Walked	1.0%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Carteret County is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.8 minutes in North Carolina.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau