Currituck County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Currituck County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Currituck County spend about 68 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 282 hours, about 11.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 55% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 12.0 minutes.

Currituck County holds about 0.3% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Currituck County would save about 113 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,501 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)
Currituck County	33.9 min	67.8 min	282 hrs/yr	$8,751	1,763
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 33.9 minutes to get to work in Currituck County. That's 51% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Currituck County

• Car: 89.6%
• Worked at Home: 9.0%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Currituck County: 12.7 times less than the North Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Currituck County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Commute Mode Trends in Currituck County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Currituck 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.6%	2.6%	0.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	92.8%	3.7%	1.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	93.9%	3.8%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	94.7%	3.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.0%	3.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.4%	3.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.4%	3.3%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.8%	3.2%	0.7%	1.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.5%	3.2%	0.9%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.2%	5.1%	0.8%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.6%	4.3%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.5%	4.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	91.8%	7.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.5%	7.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.5%	8.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.6%	9.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	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 95.0%. Overall it fell from 94.6% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Currituck County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Currituck County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Currituck County?

The bars show when commuters in Currituck 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 Currituck County6.6% North Carolina4.4%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Currituck County3.7% North Carolina3.5%	3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Currituck County4.4% North Carolina4.6%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Currituck County10.9% North Carolina9.0%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Currituck County14.3% North Carolina10.2%	14.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Currituck County17.7% North Carolina15.3%	17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Currituck County15.6% North Carolina12.8%	15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Currituck County8.1% North Carolina11.7%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Currituck County4.3% North Carolina5.4%	4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Currituck County5.7% North Carolina6.4%	5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Currituck County1.9% North Carolina2.8%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Currituck County0.2% North Carolina1.4%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Currituck County3.0% North Carolina6.3%	3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Currituck County3.5% North Carolina6.4%	3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Currituck County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Carolina: 55.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.4%) 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 Currituck 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 Currituck 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 Currituck 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	Currituck County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Currituck County were on the road by 7:17 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across North Carolina, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Currituck County now leave 21 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 Currituck County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Currituck County's commute time compare?

Metric	Currituck County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.0%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Currituck County is 33.9 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau