Edgecombe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Edgecombe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Edgecombe 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 6.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 14% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Edgecombe County holds about 0.5% 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 Edgecombe County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,946 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)
Edgecombe County	18.8 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,865	787
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 18.8 minutes to get to work in Edgecombe County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 8.0% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 87.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Other: 2.0%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually common in Edgecombe County: 3.4 times more than the North Carolina average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

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

How does Edgecombe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Edgecombe County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.0%	14.5%	13.4%
Walked	1.2%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Edgecombe County is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.8 minutes in North Carolina.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher 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