Greene County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Greene County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Greene County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Greene County holds about 0.2% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Greene County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,279 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)
Greene County	22.1 min	44.1 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,697	1,068
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 22.1 minutes to get to work in Greene County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 4.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Greene County

• Car: 93.7%
• Worked at Home: 4.9% unusually low
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Greene County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Greene County: 3.3 times less than the North Carolina average (4.9% vs 16.3%).

Biking is essentially absent in Greene County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Commute Mode Trends in Greene County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Greene 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.3%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.6%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.9%	3.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2012	94.7%	3.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	95.6%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	94.7%	2.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	94.4%	1.5%	2.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	94.0%	1.6%	3.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	95.4%	1.3%	2.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	95.3%	1.5%	2.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	95.8%	1.6%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	96.5%	2.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	96.0%	3.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.1%	4.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.7%	3.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.7%	4.9%	1.2%	0.1%	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 2020 at 96.5%. Overall it fell from 96.3% in 2009 to 93.7% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Greene County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 4.9% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.5% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Greene County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greene County?

The bars show when commuters in Greene 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 Greene County3.6% North Carolina4.4%	3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Greene County4.8% North Carolina3.5%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Greene County4.0% North Carolina4.6%	4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Greene County11.3% North Carolina9.0%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Greene County13.0% North Carolina10.2%	13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Greene County17.5% North Carolina15.3%	17.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Greene County11.0% North Carolina12.8%	11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Greene County11.3% North Carolina11.7%	11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Greene County2.7% North Carolina5.4%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Greene County2.1% North Carolina6.4%	2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Greene County0.8% North Carolina2.8%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Greene County1.5% North Carolina1.4%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Greene County10.7% North Carolina6.3%	10.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Greene County5.4% North Carolina6.4%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Greene County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are about as common as in North Carolina: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Carolina: 52.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene 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	Greene County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 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	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Greene County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Greene County 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 Greene County has moved 12 minutes later.

How does Greene County's commute time compare?

Metric	Greene County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 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	4.9%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Greene County is about the same as 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