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Martin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Martin 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 Martin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Martin County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Martin 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 Martin County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,426 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)
Martin County 23.5 min 47.0 min 196 hrs/yr $6,065 550
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

Fastest commutes among counties in North Carolina
  1. Macon County (17.2 min)
  2. Watauga County (17.2 min)
  3. Dare County (17.4 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in North Carolina
  1. Gates County (35.9 min)
  2. Currituck County (33.9 min)
  3. Tyrrell County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Martin County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Martin County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in North Carolina

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 working from home. About 5.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Martin County

  • Car: 90.0%
  • Worked at Home: 5.5%
  • Walked: 3.1%
  • Other: 1.4%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Martin County: 59.8 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Martin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Martin 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 Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 94.1% 1.9% 2.8% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 93.1% 2.3% 3.3% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 93.6% 2.6% 2.5% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 94.4% 1.7% 2.6% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 95.2% 1.8% 2.2% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2014 95.2% 2.0% 1.9% 0.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2015 95.9% 2.2% 1.4% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 95.6% 2.3% 1.4% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 95.4% 2.3% 1.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 95.0% 2.3% 1.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 94.9% 2.8% 1.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2%
2020 93.2% 3.4% 2.2% 0.4% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2%
2021 93.6% 3.8% 1.8% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 90.3% 6.5% 1.9% 0.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2023 89.9% 6.5% 3.0% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 90.0% 5.5% 3.1% 1.4% 0.0% 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 was highest in 2015 at 95.9% and lowest in 2023 at 89.9%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Martin County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 5.5% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 6.5% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 5.5%.

Commute Start Times in Martin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Martin County?

The bars show when commuters in Martin 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
8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
5.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Martin County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.8%) 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 Martin 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 Martin 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 Martin 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 Martin County North Carolina United States
2009 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:30 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:27 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:27 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:29 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:28 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:34 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:26 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:27 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:35 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:35 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Martin County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). North Carolina followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Martin County now leave 3 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 Martin County has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Martin County in the whole series.

How does Martin County's commute time compare?

Metric Martin County North Carolina US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.5 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 5.5% 16.3% 15.0%
Walked 3.1% 1.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.7% 3.2%

The average commute time in Martin County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Martin County, NC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Martin County, NC is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 21,644 residents against a local median of 44,493. Where Martin County, NC breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 33% below the local median of 8.3% at 5.5%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 23.5 min against a local median of 20.0 min, 17% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% above the local median it puts Martin County, NC at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.7% on work from home, so Martin County, NC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Martin County, NC has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Martin County, NC 21,644 23.5 min #6/6 5.5% #4/6 7:35 AM #3/6
Bertie County, NC 17,166 21.7 min 4.3% 7:40 AM
Pitt County, NC 177,193 17.5 min 11.9% 7:37 AM
Beaufort County, NC 44,493 20.0 min 8.9% 7:40 AM
Edgecombe County, NC 48,736 18.9 min 8.3% 7:20 AM
Hertford County, NC 19,906 20.9 min 4.3% 7:17 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Martin County, North Carolina.

Is commuting expensive in Martin County, North Carolina?

Commuters here spend an estimated 196 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,065 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Martin County, 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.

Do people use public transit in Martin County, North Carolina?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.7% in North Carolina, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in North Carolina?

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).