Pitt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pitt County, 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 Pitt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pitt County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Pitt County holds about 1.7% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pitt County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,808 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)
Pitt County	17.5 min	35.0 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,519	1,233
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

Fastest commutes among counties in North Carolina

Macon County (17.2 min)
Watauga County (17.2 min)
Dare County (17.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in North Carolina

Gates County (35.9 min)
Currituck County (33.9 min)
Tyrrell County (33.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Pitt County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Pitt County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in North Carolina

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 11.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pitt County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Pitt County: 6.0 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pitt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pitt 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.

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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.1%	2.3%	1.9%	2.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	92.3%	2.3%	2.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2011	92.1%	2.5%	2.4%	1.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2012	93.1%	2.5%	2.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	93.6%	2.4%	2.2%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	92.8%	2.7%	2.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2015	92.5%	3.0%	2.3%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	92.5%	3.2%	2.0%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	92.1%	4.0%	1.7%	0.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	92.4%	4.2%	1.4%	0.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	91.9%	4.7%	1.2%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.7%	6.4%	1.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	87.6%	8.6%	2.0%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	87.1%	9.1%	2.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.0%	11.0%	2.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.9%	11.9%	2.3%	0.8%	0.6%	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 2013 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 83.9% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pitt County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 11.9% in 2024, up 9.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pitt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pitt County?

The bars show when commuters in Pitt 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pitt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% 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: 49.6% 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 Pitt 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 Pitt 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 Pitt 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pitt County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pitt County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:46 AM). That goes against the trend across North Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Pitt County now leave 1 minute 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 Pitt County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Pitt County in the whole series.

How does Pitt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pitt County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 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	11.9%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pitt County is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pitt County, NC Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pitt County, NC is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 177,193 residents against a local median of 44,493. Where Pitt County, NC breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 117% above the local median of 5.5% at 11.9%.

The counties themselves spread 5.5% on work from home, so Pitt County, NC sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pitt County, NC has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pitt County, NC	177,193	17.5 min #1/6	11.9% #1/6	7:37 AM #5/6
Greene County, NC	20,465	22.1 min	4.9%	7:23 AM
Martin County, NC	21,644	23.5 min	5.5%	7:35 AM
Edgecombe County, NC	48,736	18.9 min	8.3%	7:20 AM
Lenoir County, NC	54,882	18.7 min	3.4%	7:24 AM
Beaufort County, NC	44,493	20.0 min	8.9%	7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pitt County, North Carolina.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Pitt County, North Carolina?

Commuters here spend an estimated 146 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,519 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Pitt County, North Carolina?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pitt County, North Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in North Carolina?

Among counties in North Carolina, the shortest average commutes are in Macon County (17.2 min), Watauga County (17.2 min), Dare County (17.4 min). The longest are in Gates County (35.9 min), Currituck County (33.9 min), Tyrrell County (33.6 min).