Moore County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Moore County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Moore County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Moore County holds about 1.0% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Moore County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,370 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)
Moore County	22.9 min	45.9 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,925	1,284
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

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On average, it takes 22.9 minutes to get to work in Moore County. That's 2% longer 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 working from home. About 12.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Moore County

• Car: 83.5%
• Worked at Home: 12.2%
• Other: 2.8%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Moore County: 4.3 times more than the North Carolina average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Moore County: 3.2 times less than the North Carolina average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in Moore County: 5.6 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Moore County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Moore 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.7%	3.6%	0.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	93.5%	3.7%	1.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	93.6%	3.4%	1.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	93.3%	3.3%	0.8%	1.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.9%	3.4%	1.0%	1.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.9%	3.6%	0.9%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.2%	4.1%	0.8%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	91.8%	5.2%	0.7%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.9%	5.5%	0.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	91.1%	6.6%	0.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	89.6%	7.5%	1.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	88.0%	7.6%	2.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	85.5%	9.1%	3.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	84.1%	10.8%	3.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	83.0%	11.4%	3.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	83.5%	12.2%	2.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 83.0%. Overall it fell from 93.7% in 2009 to 83.5% in 2024, down 10.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Moore County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 12.2% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Moore County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Moore County?

The bars show when commuters in Moore 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 Moore County4.2% North Carolina4.4%	4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Moore County3.3% North Carolina3.5%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Moore County5.6% North Carolina4.6%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Moore County10.1% North Carolina9.0%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Moore County11.8% North Carolina10.2%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Moore County16.8% North Carolina15.3%	16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Moore County13.4% North Carolina12.8%	13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Moore County11.8% North Carolina11.7%	11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Moore County4.1% North Carolina5.4%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Moore County6.0% North Carolina6.4%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Moore County2.1% North Carolina2.8%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Moore County1.0% North Carolina1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Moore County4.5% North Carolina6.3%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Moore County5.4% North Carolina6.4%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Moore County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are about as common as in North Carolina: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Carolina: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.0%) 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 Moore 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 Moore 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 Moore 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Moore County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Moore County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across North Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Moore County now leave 11 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 Moore County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Moore County in the whole series.

How does Moore County's commute time compare?

Metric	Moore County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 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	12.2%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Moore County is 22.9 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau