Hyde County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hyde County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hyde County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Hyde County holds about 0.0% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hyde County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,092 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)
Hyde County	20.2 min	40.5 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,231	273
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.

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On average, it takes 20.2 minutes to get to work in Hyde County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by other means. About 0.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hyde County

• Car: 91.7%
• Other: 6.1%
• Worked at Home: 0.8% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.8% unusually high
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Hyde County: 20.4 times less than the North Carolina average (0.8% vs 16.3%).

Biking is unusually common in Hyde County: 4.7 times more than the North Carolina average (0.8% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hyde County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hyde 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	Other	Bicycle	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.8%	0.0%	2.2%	5.9%	4.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	83.7%	0.0%	1.6%	7.7%	6.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	83.5%	1.8%	4.1%	5.2%	4.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	82.2%	1.8%	3.9%	3.9%	7.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	83.2%	2.2%	5.0%	0.2%	8.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	84.9%	2.3%	5.3%	2.0%	4.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	81.0%	2.4%	5.2%	5.6%	5.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	81.4%	2.5%	1.2%	7.7%	6.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	85.0%	2.6%	1.6%	7.1%	2.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	84.5%	2.3%	0.6%	9.6%	2.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	84.4%	2.7%	0.5%	9.7%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	84.8%	5.9%	0.5%	5.8%	1.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.1%	6.5%	0.1%	2.4%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	3.2%	0.0%	3.8%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.3%	4.4%	0.0%	1.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.7%	6.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2023 at 93.3% and lowest in 2015 at 81.0%. Overall it rose from 87.8% in 2009 to 91.7% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.9% to 0.8% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 8.9% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Hyde County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hyde County?

The bars show when commuters in Hyde 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 Hyde County5.9% North Carolina4.4%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hyde County3.3% North Carolina3.5%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hyde County0.9% North Carolina4.6%	0.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hyde County16.3% North Carolina9.0%	16.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hyde County9.1% North Carolina10.2%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hyde County13.4% North Carolina15.3%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hyde County13.6% North Carolina12.8%	13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hyde County20.0% North Carolina11.7%	20.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hyde County9.0% North Carolina5.4%	9.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hyde County2.4% North Carolina6.4%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hyde County3.4% North Carolina2.8%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hyde County0.0% North Carolina1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hyde County2.1% North Carolina6.3%	2.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hyde County0.6% North Carolina6.4%	0.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hyde County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 20.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across North Carolina. Early starts are less common than in North Carolina: 10.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Carolina: 56.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 12 commuters (8.5%) 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 Hyde 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 Hyde 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 Hyde 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	Hyde County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:48 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hyde County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Hyde County now leave 5 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 Hyde County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Hyde County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hyde County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 min	21.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	0.8%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hyde County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.2% 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