Commuting in Edgecombe 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 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 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 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 $1,952 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
18.9 min
37.8 min
157 hrs/yr
$4,881
787
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.
On average, it takes
18.9
minutes to get to work in
Edgecombe County.
That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 79% 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. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.3% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Edgecombe County
Car:
87.6%
Worked at Home:
8.3%
Other:
2.1%
Walked:
0.9%
Public Transportation:
0.7%
Motorcycle:
0.3%unusually high
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Edgecombe County: 3.9 times more than the North Carolina average (0.3% vs 0.1%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Edgecombe County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.
Biking is unusually rare in Edgecombe County: 3.2 times less than the North Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Edgecombe County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Edgecombe 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
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Bicycle
Taxi
2009
93.0%
1.6%
1.4%
2.3%
1.1%
0.3%
0.1%
0.3%
2010
94.7%
1.1%
0.8%
1.8%
1.0%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2011
94.6%
1.8%
0.8%
1.4%
0.9%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
2012
94.4%
1.9%
0.9%
1.4%
0.7%
0.2%
0.2%
0.3%
2013
94.7%
2.0%
1.0%
1.3%
0.5%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2014
92.7%
2.7%
1.8%
1.6%
1.0%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
2015
91.4%
2.7%
3.3%
1.6%
0.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2016
91.5%
2.0%
4.3%
1.3%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2017
90.6%
2.1%
4.6%
1.9%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2018
89.5%
2.4%
4.9%
2.3%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.2%
2019
90.2%
2.1%
4.6%
2.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
0.2%
2020
90.6%
2.8%
3.2%
2.3%
0.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
2021
90.7%
3.6%
2.3%
2.1%
0.8%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
89.0%
6.1%
1.9%
1.7%
1.0%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
87.7%
8.0%
2.0%
1.2%
0.8%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2024
87.6%
8.3%
2.1%
0.9%
0.7%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Edgecombe County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Edgecombe County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Edgecombe County?
The bars show when commuters in Edgecombe 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.
Edgecombe CountyNorth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Edgecombe County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 18.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 44.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Edgecombe 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 Edgecombe 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 Edgecombe 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
Edgecombe County
North Carolina
United States
2009
7:36 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:32 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:28 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:27 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:25 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Edgecombe County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). That goes against the trend across North Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Edgecombe County now leave 18 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 Edgecombe County has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Edgecombe County in the whole series.
How does Edgecombe County's commute time compare?
Metric
Edgecombe County
North Carolina
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
18.9 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
8.3%
16.3%
15.0%
Walked
0.9%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.7%
0.7%
3.2%
The average commute time in Edgecombe County is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.
The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as North Carolina. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.
Edgecombe County, NC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Edgecombe County, NC is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 48,736 residents against a local median of 79,278. Edgecombe County, NC sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.
The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 8% below the local median at 18.9 min against 20.5 min. Edgecombe County, NC has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
Is commuting expensive in Edgecombe County, North Carolina?
Commuters here spend an estimated 157 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,881 at a typical national wage. That's 14% less than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Edgecombe County, North Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
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).