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Duplin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Duplin County, North Carolina: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Duplin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Duplin County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Duplin County holds about 0.5% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Duplin County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,376 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)
Duplin County 23.0 min 46.0 min 192 hrs/yr $5,941 1,060
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.

Commute Time Map: North Carolina Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in North Carolina
  1. Macon County (17.2 min)
  2. Watauga County (17.2 min)
  3. Dare County (17.4 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in North Carolina
  1. Gates County (35.9 min)
  2. Currituck County (33.9 min)
  3. Tyrrell County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Duplin County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Duplin County. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Duplin County

  • Car: 90.2%
  • Worked at Home: 6.7%
  • Other: 1.8%
  • Walked: 1.2%
  • 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 Duplin County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

Public transit is unusually rare in Duplin County: 139.1 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Duplin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Duplin 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Other Walked Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 92.7% 2.8% 0.7% 2.7% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 93.1% 2.4% 0.8% 2.7% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 93.8% 2.3% 0.4% 2.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 94.2% 2.2% 0.5% 2.4% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 94.1% 2.5% 0.6% 2.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 95.6% 2.0% 0.8% 1.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.1% 2.5% 0.8% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 94.3% 3.0% 1.1% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 94.4% 3.0% 1.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 94.6% 2.4% 1.1% 1.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 94.3% 2.8% 0.9% 1.8% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 94.2% 3.7% 0.5% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 94.1% 3.8% 0.7% 1.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 92.7% 4.4% 1.4% 1.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 91.6% 5.4% 1.6% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 90.2% 6.7% 1.8% 1.2% 0.1% 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 2014 at 95.6%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Duplin County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 6.7% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Duplin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Duplin County?

The bars show when commuters in Duplin 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
7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Duplin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 22.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Duplin 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 Duplin 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 Duplin 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Duplin County North Carolina United States
2009 7:29 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:25 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:25 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:21 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:20 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:23 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:21 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:20 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:22 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:19 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:16 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:14 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:14 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:13 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Duplin County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across North Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Duplin County now leave 25 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 Duplin County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Duplin County in the whole series.

How does Duplin County's commute time compare?

Metric Duplin County North Carolina US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.0 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 6.7% 16.3% 15.0%
Walked 1.2% 1.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.7% 3.2%

The average commute time in Duplin County is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Duplin County, NC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Duplin County, NC is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 49,292 residents against a local median of 65,530. The measure that sets Duplin County, NC apart most is work from home: 6.7%, 24% above the local median of 5.4%.

The counties themselves spread 9.8% on work from home, so Duplin County, NC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Duplin County, NC has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Duplin County, NC 49,292 23.0 min #5/6 6.7% #3/6 7:13 AM #1/6
Lenoir County, NC 54,882 18.7 min 3.4% 7:24 AM
Pender County, NC 65,530 30.3 min 13.2% 7:19 AM
Wayne County, NC 118,630 18.5 min 5.4% 7:24 AM
Sampson County, NC 59,467 22.5 min 4.9% 7:22 AM
Onslow County, NC 207,702 20.1 min 12.8% 7:15 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Duplin County, North Carolina.

Is living in Duplin County, North Carolina good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,941 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Duplin County, North Carolina?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Duplin County, North Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Duplin County, North Carolina?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.7% in North Carolina, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in North Carolina have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in North Carolina, the shortest average commutes are in Macon County (17.2 min), Watauga County (17.2 min), Dare County (17.4 min). The longest are in Gates County (35.9 min), Currituck County (33.9 min), Tyrrell County (33.6 min).