Morrisville Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Morrisville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morrisville spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.7 minutes.

Morrisville 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 Morrisville would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,079 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)
Morrisville	20.1 min	40.2 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,197	3,186
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.

Morrisville Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Morrisville. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 39.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morrisville

• Car: 57.2% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 39.6%
• Other: 1.9%
• Taxi: 0.6% unusually high
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 29% less common in Morrisville than the North Carolina average (57.2% vs 80.0%).

Walking is unusually rare in Morrisville: 3.4 times less than the North Carolina average (0.5% vs 1.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Morrisville: 4.4 times less than the North Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Morrisville: 3.6 times more than the North Carolina average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Morrisville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morrisville 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	Other	Taxi	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	88.7%	8.3%	0.9%	0.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	89.3%	6.5%	1.1%	0.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%
2011	88.7%	8.0%	1.1%	0.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2012	88.9%	7.9%	1.1%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2013	89.0%	8.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	89.5%	8.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	86.5%	10.7%	0.6%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2016	87.4%	9.4%	0.6%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2017	86.1%	10.6%	0.6%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2018	86.1%	10.1%	0.6%	0.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	86.6%	9.9%	0.6%	0.1%	2.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2020	79.9%	17.4%	0.8%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	72.7%	24.0%	1.8%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	68.3%	28.8%	1.5%	0.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	62.7%	34.3%	1.8%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	57.2%	39.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 89.5%. Overall it fell from 88.7% in 2009 to 57.2% in 2024, down 31.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morrisville: its share of workers rose from 8.3% in 2009 to 39.6% in 2024, up 31.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 29.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Morrisville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morrisville?

The bars show when commuters in Morrisville 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 Morrisville3.1% North Carolina4.4%	3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Morrisville2.1% North Carolina3.5%	2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Morrisville2.5% North Carolina4.6%	2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Morrisville4.1% North Carolina9.0%	4.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Morrisville7.4% North Carolina10.2%	7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Morrisville11.7% North Carolina15.3%	11.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Morrisville14.6% North Carolina12.8%	14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Morrisville17.6% North Carolina11.7%	17.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Morrisville9.7% North Carolina5.4%	9.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Morrisville13.9% North Carolina6.4%	13.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Morrisville2.7% North Carolina2.8%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Morrisville1.6% North Carolina1.4%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Morrisville4.2% North Carolina6.3%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Morrisville4.8% North Carolina6.4%	4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morrisville is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across North Carolina. Early starts are less common than in North Carolina: 7.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush looks much like North Carolina's: 51.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.3%) 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 Morrisville, 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 Morrisville 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 Morrisville 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	Morrisville	North Carolina	United States
2009	8:06 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:06 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:04 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:07 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:03 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:01 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:05 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morrisville were on the road by 8:08 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (8:06 AM). North Carolina followed the same path, with the typical start moving 1 minute later. Commuters in Morrisville now leave 30 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Morrisville has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Morrisville's commute time compare?

Metric	Morrisville	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 min	21.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	39.6%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morrisville is 20.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.1% 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