Jones County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jones County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jones County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Jones County holds about 0.1% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jones County would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,741 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)
Jones County	26.5 min	53.1 min	221 hrs/yr	$6,853	1,361
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 26.5 minutes to get to work in Jones County. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 81% of counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jones County

• Car: 92.6%
• Worked at Home: 4.0% unusually low
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 1.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Jones County: 26.1 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Jones County: 4.0 times less than the North Carolina average (4.0% vs 16.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Jones County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jones 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	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	91.1%	4.1%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.3%	3.0%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	90.9%	3.5%	2.7%	0.9%	0.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	89.1%	4.1%	4.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%
2013	88.6%	4.7%	3.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%
2014	89.7%	4.6%	2.5%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2015	87.1%	5.3%	4.9%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	88.6%	5.1%	4.0%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.5%	3.3%	2.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.8%	4.2%	1.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.9%	3.4%	1.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.2%	3.1%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.0%	2.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.0%	3.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.5%	2.3%	1.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	92.6%	4.0%	1.5%	1.4%	0.2%	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 2020 at 95.2% and lowest in 2015 at 87.1%. Overall it rose from 91.1% in 2009 to 92.6% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.2% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Walking overtook biking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.9% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.5%.

Commute Start Times in Jones County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jones County?

The bars show when commuters in Jones 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 Jones County8.7% North Carolina4.4%	8.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jones County4.5% North Carolina3.5%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jones County7.8% North Carolina4.6%	7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jones County11.3% North Carolina9.0%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jones County7.2% North Carolina10.2%	7.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jones County10.0% North Carolina15.3%	10.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jones County14.2% North Carolina12.8%	14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jones County12.3% North Carolina11.7%	12.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jones County3.7% North Carolina5.4%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jones County3.6% North Carolina6.4%	3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jones County5.4% North Carolina2.8%	5.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jones County0.6% North Carolina1.4%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jones County6.1% North Carolina6.3%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jones County4.7% North Carolina6.4%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jones County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 21.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 43.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 Jones 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 Jones 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 Jones 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	Jones County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:59 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jones County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Jones County now leave 7 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 Jones County has moved 32 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Jones County in the whole series.

How does Jones County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jones County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.5 min	21.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.0%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jones County is 26.5 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau