Fuquay-Varina Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Fuquay-Varina: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fuquay-Varina spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 270 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 10.6 minutes.

Fuquay-Varina 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 Fuquay-Varina would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,349 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)
Fuquay-Varina	32.4 min	64.8 min	270 hrs/yr	$8,372	2,761
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.

Fuquay-Varina Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.4 minutes to get to work in Fuquay-Varina. That's 45% 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 29.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fuquay-Varina

• Car: 69.0%
• Worked at Home: 29.3%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Fuquay-Varina: 129388087383.3 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Fuquay-Varina: 8.8 times less than the North Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Fuquay-Varina, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Biking is unusually rare in Fuquay-Varina: 135.1 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fuquay-Varina, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fuquay-Varina 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.1%	5.3%	0.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2010	92.0%	5.5%	0.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	92.2%	5.4%	0.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	92.1%	4.9%	1.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	91.2%	5.3%	1.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	5.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	91.8%	5.7%	0.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	89.9%	7.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	90.5%	7.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2018	90.4%	8.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	88.6%	9.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2020	86.4%	11.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	80.7%	17.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	77.8%	21.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	71.9%	26.4%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	69.0%	29.3%	1.0%	0.6%	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 2011 at 92.2%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 69.0% in 2024, down 23.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fuquay-Varina: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 29.3% in 2024, up 24.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 19.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Fuquay-Varina

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fuquay-Varina?

The bars show when commuters in Fuquay-Varina 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 Fuquay-Varina5.7% North Carolina4.4%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Fuquay-Varina4.1% North Carolina3.5%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Fuquay-Varina5.0% North Carolina4.6%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Fuquay-Varina9.7% North Carolina9.0%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Fuquay-Varina11.9% North Carolina10.2%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Fuquay-Varina17.8% North Carolina15.3%	17.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Fuquay-Varina13.8% North Carolina12.8%	13.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Fuquay-Varina10.2% North Carolina11.7%	10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Fuquay-Varina3.3% North Carolina5.4%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Fuquay-Varina4.5% North Carolina6.4%	4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Fuquay-Varina2.5% North Carolina2.8%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Fuquay-Varina0.9% North Carolina1.4%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Fuquay-Varina4.4% North Carolina6.3%	4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Fuquay-Varina6.1% North Carolina6.4%	6.1%

Fuquay-Varina North Carolina Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Fuquay-Varina is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 14.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Carolina: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.4%) 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 Fuquay-Varina, 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 Fuquay-Varina 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 Fuquay-Varina 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.

• Fuquay-Varina
• North Carolina
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Fuquay-Varina	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fuquay-Varina were on the road by 7:23 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). North Carolina followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Fuquay-Varina now leave 15 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 Fuquay-Varina has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Fuquay-Varina's commute time compare?

Metric	Fuquay-Varina	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.4 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	29.3%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fuquay-Varina is 32.4 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau