Orange County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Orange County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Orange County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting.

That is 1% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Orange County holds about 1.4% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Orange County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,269 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)
Orange County	22.0 min	43.9 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,672	2,074
North Carolina	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,630	1,609
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 22.0 minutes to get to work in Orange County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 24.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 64.4% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 24.2%
• Public Transportation: 4.2% unusually high
• Walked: 4.0%
• Bicycle: 1.8% unusually high
• Other: 1.1%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Car commuting in Orange County is 21% lower than the North Carolina average (64.4% vs 81.7%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually common in Orange County: 5.8 times more than the North Carolina average (4.2% vs 0.7%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually common in Orange County: 11.3 times more than the North Carolina average (1.8% vs 0.2%).

Orange County stands out for active commuting: 5.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.3 times the North Carolina average of 1.8%.

How does Orange County's commute time compare?

Metric	Orange County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 min	21.8 min	22.5 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	24.2%	14.5%	13.4%
Walked	4.0%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.2%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Orange County is about the same as in North Carolina.

4.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau