Granville County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Granville County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Granville County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 8.6 minutes.

Granville County holds about 0.6% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Granville County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,148 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)
Granville County	30.5 min	60.9 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,870	1,455
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

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On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Granville County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 94% of counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Granville County

• Car: 85.0%
• Worked at Home: 13.9%
• Other: 0.5%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Granville County: 5.4 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Granville County: 4.0 times less than the North Carolina average (0.4% vs 1.6%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Granville County, versus 0.7% in North Carolina.

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Granville County: just 0.5%, 3.7 times below the North Carolina average of 1.8%.

Commute Mode Trends in Granville County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Granville 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.8%	2.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.6%	3.7%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	94.3%	3.7%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.2%	3.9%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.7%	3.9%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.3%	4.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.7%	4.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.1%	3.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	95.2%	2.9%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	93.7%	4.4%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	93.0%	4.8%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	91.9%	6.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.4%	7.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.3%	9.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.4%	11.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.0%	13.9%	0.5%	0.4%	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. Overall its share fell from 95.8% in 2009 to 85.0% in 2024, down 10.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Granville County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 13.9% in 2024, up 11.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Granville County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Granville County?

The bars show when commuters in Granville 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 Granville County4.8% North Carolina4.4%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Granville County5.8% North Carolina3.5%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Granville County5.0% North Carolina4.6%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Granville County13.9% North Carolina9.0%	13.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Granville County11.1% North Carolina10.2%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Granville County16.6% North Carolina15.3%	16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Granville County12.1% North Carolina12.8%	12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Granville County7.6% North Carolina11.7%	7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Granville County3.8% North Carolina5.4%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Granville County3.5% North Carolina6.4%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Granville County2.0% North Carolina2.8%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Granville County1.0% North Carolina1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Granville County5.6% North Carolina6.3%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Granville County7.3% North Carolina6.4%	7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Granville County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 15.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 47.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Granville 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 Granville 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 Granville 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	Granville County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Granville County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). That goes against the trend across North Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Granville 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 Granville County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Granville County's commute time compare?

Metric	Granville County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.9%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Granville County is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau