Commuting in Iredell 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 Iredell County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Iredell County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.
Iredell County holds about 1.8% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Iredell County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,178 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)
Iredell County
21.1 min
42.2 min
176 hrs/yr
$5,445
2,032
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
21.1
minutes to get to work in
Iredell County.
That's 6% 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 14.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Iredell County
Car:
82.7%
Worked at Home:
14.6%
Walked:
1.1%
Other:
1.0%
Public Transportation:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
0.2%
Taxi:
< 0.1%
Bicycle:
< 0.1%
Commute Mode Trends in Iredell County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Iredell 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
Walked
Other
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Taxi
Bicycle
2009
93.5%
4.2%
0.8%
0.7%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2010
93.8%
4.2%
0.7%
0.6%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2011
93.9%
4.2%
0.6%
0.6%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2012
93.6%
4.1%
0.8%
0.6%
0.3%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2013
93.2%
4.1%
0.9%
1.1%
0.3%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2014
93.1%
4.2%
1.0%
0.9%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
93.0%
4.3%
1.0%
1.0%
0.4%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2016
92.4%
4.8%
0.9%
1.1%
0.4%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2017
92.2%
5.2%
0.8%
1.1%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
2018
92.1%
5.7%
0.7%
0.9%
0.4%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2019
91.8%
6.2%
0.7%
0.7%
0.3%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2020
89.3%
8.2%
1.2%
0.6%
0.4%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
2021
87.2%
10.6%
1.1%
0.6%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
85.4%
12.1%
1.2%
0.7%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
83.8%
13.5%
1.3%
0.9%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2024
82.7%
14.6%
1.1%
1.0%
0.2%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 82.7% in 2024, down 10.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 13 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Iredell County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 14.6% in 2024, up 10.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in Iredell County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Iredell County?
The bars show when commuters in Iredell 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.
Iredell CountyNorth CarolinaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Iredell County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush looks much like North Carolina's: 50.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Iredell 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 Iredell 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 Iredell 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
Iredell County
North Carolina
United States
2009
7:27 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:27 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:27 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:28 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
7:26 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:27 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Iredell County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). North Carolina followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Iredell County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).
How does Iredell County's commute time compare?
Metric
Iredell County
North Carolina
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
21.1 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
14.6%
16.3%
15.0%
Walked
1.1%
1.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
0.7%
3.2%
The average commute time in Iredell County is 21.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.
0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.
Iredell County, NC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Iredell County, NC is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 196,543 residents against a local median of 44,122. The measure that sets Iredell County, NC apart most is work from home: 14.6%, 77% above the local median of 8.2%.
The counties themselves sit within 3.2% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Iredell County, NC, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Iredell County, NC has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Iredell County, North Carolina.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Iredell County, North Carolina?
Commuters here spend an estimated 176 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,445 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Iredell County, North Carolina?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Iredell 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).