Nash County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Nash County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Nash County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Nash County holds about 0.9% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Nash County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,123 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)
Nash County	20.5 min	41.1 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,308	1,103
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 20.5 minutes to get to work in Nash County. That's 8% shorter 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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Nash County

• Car: 87.5%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Other: 0.6%
• Taxi: 0.5% unusually high
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Nash County: 3.7 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Nash County: 3.7 times less than the North Carolina average (0.4% vs 1.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Nash County: 3.0 times more than the North Carolina average (0.5% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Nash County: 12.4 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Nash County: just 0.4%, 3.9 times below the North Carolina average of 1.8%.

Commute Mode Trends in Nash County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Nash 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	Other	Taxi	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	95.3%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	95.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	95.0%	2.3%	0.6%	0.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	94.6%	2.5%	0.5%	0.2%	1.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	94.4%	2.9%	0.3%	0.2%	1.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	94.2%	2.9%	0.4%	0.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	1.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	94.5%	3.0%	0.4%	0.0%	1.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2018	94.0%	3.4%	0.7%	0.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.3%	4.0%	0.7%	0.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	93.2%	4.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	91.0%	6.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.6%	8.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.3%	9.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.5%	10.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.8% in 2009 to 87.5% in 2024, down 8.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Nash County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Nash County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Nash County?

The bars show when commuters in Nash 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 Nash County4.4% North Carolina4.4%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Nash County4.5% North Carolina3.5%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Nash County4.5% North Carolina4.6%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Nash County11.1% North Carolina9.0%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Nash County10.1% North Carolina10.2%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Nash County15.6% North Carolina15.3%	15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Nash County11.8% North Carolina12.8%	11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Nash County10.7% North Carolina11.7%	10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Nash County3.6% North Carolina5.4%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Nash County5.5% North Carolina6.4%	5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Nash County2.3% North Carolina2.8%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Nash County1.4% North Carolina1.4%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Nash County5.5% North Carolina6.3%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Nash County9.0% North Carolina6.4%	9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Nash County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are about as common as in North Carolina: 13.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush looks much like North Carolina's: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.8%) 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 Nash 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 Nash 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 Nash 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	Nash County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 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	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Nash County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across North Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Nash County now leave 8 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 Nash County has moved 2 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Nash County in the whole series.

How does Nash County's commute time compare?

Metric	Nash County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	10.6%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Nash County is 20.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau