Person County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Person County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Person County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 236 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Person County holds about 0.4% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Person County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,929 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)
Person County	28.3 min	56.7 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,324	981
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 28.3 minutes to get to work in Person County. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 89% of counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Person County

• Car: 83.2%
• Worked at Home: 12.9%
• Other: 2.5%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Person County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Biking is essentially absent in Person County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Commute Mode Trends in Person County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Person 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.1%	2.8%	0.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.7%	2.8%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.9%	3.5%	2.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.8%	3.4%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.5%	3.4%	2.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.8%	3.0%	2.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	2.5%	2.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	95.6%	2.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	2.4%	0.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	96.2%	2.1%	0.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.7%	2.7%	2.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.2%	6.2%	1.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.3%	8.2%	2.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.4%	9.2%	3.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.6%	11.6%	4.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.2%	12.9%	2.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 96.2% and lowest in 2023 at 82.6%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 83.2% in 2024, down 11.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Person County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 12.9% in 2024, up 10.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Person County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Person County?

The bars show when commuters in Person 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 Person County6.8% North Carolina4.4%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Person County3.9% North Carolina3.5%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Person County7.6% North Carolina4.6%	7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Person County8.1% North Carolina9.0%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Person County14.3% North Carolina10.2%	14.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Person County11.8% North Carolina15.3%	11.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Person County11.9% North Carolina12.8%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Person County11.2% North Carolina11.7%	11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Person County2.7% North Carolina5.4%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Person County3.2% North Carolina6.4%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Person County1.3% North Carolina2.8%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Person County1.0% North Carolina1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Person County8.4% North Carolina6.3%	8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Person County7.8% North Carolina6.4%	7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Person County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush looks much like North Carolina's: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Person 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 Person 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 Person 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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• North Carolina
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Person County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Person County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Person County now leave 14 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 Person County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Person County's commute time compare?

Metric	Person County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.3 min	21.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	12.9%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Person County is 28.3 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau