Jacksonville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Jacksonville, 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 Jacksonville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jacksonville spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 109 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Jacksonville holds about 0.6% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jacksonville would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,346 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)
Jacksonville	13.0 min	26.1 min	109 hrs/yr	$3,366	2,795
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.

Jacksonville Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.0 minutes to get to work in Jacksonville. That's 42% shorter 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 walking. About 13.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jacksonville

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Jacksonville: 3.7 times more than the North Carolina average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Jacksonville: 8.5 times more than the North Carolina average (13.4% vs 1.6%).

Jacksonville stands out for active commuting: 13.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 7.8 times the North Carolina average of 1.8%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jacksonville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jacksonville 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	68.3%	11.6%	17.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%
2010	73.1%	10.0%	13.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	1.2%	0.5%
2011	71.1%	9.8%	15.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	1.2%	0.4%
2012	73.0%	10.1%	14.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.9%	0.3%
2013	75.6%	10.1%	12.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	77.0%	10.3%	10.2%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%
2015	76.9%	11.2%	9.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%
2016	78.0%	12.0%	7.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%
2017	74.1%	15.6%	8.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%
2018	75.2%	16.1%	6.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2019	75.2%	16.5%	5.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	77.4%	15.1%	5.3%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	75.6%	15.5%	6.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	74.9%	14.8%	8.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	72.8%	14.7%	10.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	71.8%	13.4%	13.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 78.0%. Overall it rose from 68.3% in 2009 to 71.8% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Jacksonville: its share of workers rose from 11.6% in 2009 to 13.4% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 17.0% to 13.0% of workers (down 4.0 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 16.5% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 13.4%.

Commute Start Times in Jacksonville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jacksonville?

The bars show when commuters in Jacksonville 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		3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jacksonville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are about as common as in North Carolina: 13.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Carolina: 57.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.5%) 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 Jacksonville, 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 Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville 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	Jacksonville	North Carolina	United States
2009	6:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:47 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:50 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:50 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:54 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:56 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:57 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:03 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:03 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jacksonville were on the road by 7:17 AM, 33 minutes later than in 2009 (6:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Jacksonville now leave 20 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 Jacksonville has moved 20 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Jacksonville in the whole series.

How does Jacksonville's commute time compare?

Metric	Jacksonville	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.0 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	13.0%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	13.4%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jacksonville is 13.0 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 13.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Is commuting expensive in Jacksonville, North Carolina?

Commuters here spend an estimated 109 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,366 at a typical national wage. That's 40% less than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Jacksonville, North Carolina?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.