Sampson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sampson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sampson County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 9% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Sampson County holds about 0.6% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sampson County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,462 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)
Sampson County	23.8 min	47.7 min	199 hrs/yr	$6,155	847
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 23.8 minutes to get to work in Sampson County. That's 6% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 74% of counties in North Carolina

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 4.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 93.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Sampson County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Sampson County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Sampson County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Worked at Home commuting is unusually low in Sampson County: 3.2 times less than the North Carolina average (4.5% vs 14.5%).

How does Sampson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sampson County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.8 min	21.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.5%	14.5%	13.4%
Walked	0.7%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Sampson County is 23.8 minutes, longer than the 21.8 minutes in North Carolina.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau