Mooresville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Mooresville, 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 Mooresville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mooresville spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Mooresville holds about 0.3% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mooresville would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,096 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)
Mooresville	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,241	3,378
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.

Mooresville Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Mooresville. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mooresville

Walking is unusually rare in Mooresville: 3.1 times less than the North Carolina average (0.5% vs 1.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mooresville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mooresville 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.3%	4.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%
2010	94.0%	3.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.6%	2.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.4%	3.3%	0.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	91.6%	3.9%	2.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.1%	4.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.1%	4.5%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.8%	5.1%	2.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.0%	5.5%	1.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.2%	5.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.8%	5.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.3%	10.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	84.9%	13.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	82.8%	15.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	80.0%	17.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	78.9%	18.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	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 2011 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 78.9% in 2024, down 13.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mooresville: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 18.9% in 2024, up 14.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Mooresville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mooresville?

The bars show when commuters in Mooresville 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		2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mooresville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are about as common as in North Carolina: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush looks much like North Carolina's: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Mooresville, 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 Mooresville 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 Mooresville 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	Mooresville	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 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	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mooresville were on the road by 7:36 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Mooresville now leave 2 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Mooresville's commute time compare?

Metric	Mooresville	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.9%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mooresville is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Mooresville, NC Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Mooresville, NC compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Mooresville, NC	32,577	20.3 min #1/2	18.9% #2/2	7:36 AM #1/2
Cornelius, NC	23,004	22.4 min	28.1%	7:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mooresville, North Carolina.

Is commuting expensive in Mooresville, North Carolina?

Commuters here spend an estimated 169 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,241 at a typical national wage. That's 7% less than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Mooresville, North Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.