Caswell County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Caswell County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Caswell County spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 241 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.

Caswell County holds about 0.2% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Caswell County would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,990 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)
Caswell County	28.9 min	57.9 min	241 hrs/yr	$7,474	1,061
North Carolina	21.9 min	43.7 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,645	1,609
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	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.

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On average, it takes 28.9 minutes to get to work in Caswell County. That's 29% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 91% of counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Caswell County

• Car: 88.0%
• Worked at Home: 8.5%
• Other: 3.0%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Caswell County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

Walking is unusually rare in Caswell County: 5.0 times less than the North Carolina average (0.3% vs 1.6%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Caswell County, versus 0.7% in North Carolina.

Biking is essentially absent in Caswell County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Few people walk or bike to work in Caswell County: just 0.3%, 5.6 times below the North Carolina average of 1.8%.

Commute Mode Trends in Caswell County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Caswell County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.4%	3.0%	0.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.1%	3.1%	0.6%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	95.2%	2.2%	0.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	96.4%	1.5%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	96.7%	1.1%	0.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	95.3%	2.1%	0.7%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	2.2%	0.5%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2016	94.8%	2.4%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2017	94.7%	2.9%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%
2018	95.2%	2.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2019	96.1%	1.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	96.0%	2.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	94.0%	4.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.2%	4.6%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.6%	6.6%	3.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.0%	8.5%	3.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 96.7%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 88.0% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Caswell County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 8.5% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.3% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Caswell County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Caswell County?

The bars show when commuters in Caswell County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show North Carolina for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Caswell County7.3% North Carolina4.4%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Caswell County5.5% North Carolina3.5%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Caswell County5.6% North Carolina4.6%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Caswell County14.7% North Carolina9.0%	14.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Caswell County7.3% North Carolina10.2%	7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Caswell County15.1% North Carolina15.3%	15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Caswell County10.1% North Carolina12.8%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Caswell County9.7% North Carolina11.7%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Caswell County3.9% North Carolina5.4%	3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Caswell County3.1% North Carolina6.4%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Caswell County3.3% North Carolina2.8%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Caswell County1.5% North Carolina1.4%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Caswell County5.2% North Carolina6.3%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Caswell County7.6% North Carolina6.4%	7.6%

Caswell County North Carolina Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Caswell County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 18.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 42.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Caswell County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Caswell County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Caswell County next to North Carolina and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Caswell County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Caswell County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Caswell County now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Caswell County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Caswell County's commute time compare?

Metric	Caswell County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.9 min	21.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.5%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Caswell County is 28.9 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau