Stanly County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stanly County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stanly County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Stanly 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 Stanly County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,371 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)
Stanly County	22.9 min	45.9 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,927	1,065
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 22.9 minutes to get to work in Stanly County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stanly County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 9.8%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Other: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Stanly County: 3.0 times less than the North Carolina average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Stanly County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stanly 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.2%	2.6%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	95.0%	2.5%	1.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.2%	2.8%	1.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	94.4%	2.8%	1.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.8%	2.6%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	94.4%	2.6%	1.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2015	93.9%	2.7%	2.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	94.5%	2.9%	1.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.0%	4.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	92.9%	4.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	92.9%	4.4%	1.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.5%	4.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.2%	6.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	6.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.6%	7.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	9.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	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 95.2% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Stanly County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Stanly County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stanly County?

The bars show when commuters in Stanly 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 Stanly County5.2% North Carolina4.4%	5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stanly County5.0% North Carolina3.5%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stanly County8.1% North Carolina4.6%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stanly County12.5% North Carolina9.0%	12.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stanly County11.9% North Carolina10.2%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stanly County12.2% North Carolina15.3%	12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stanly County11.9% North Carolina12.8%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stanly County9.4% North Carolina11.7%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stanly County3.9% North Carolina5.4%	3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stanly County3.7% North Carolina6.4%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stanly County1.6% North Carolina2.8%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stanly County0.8% North Carolina1.4%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stanly County7.8% North Carolina6.3%	7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stanly County6.1% North Carolina6.4%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stanly County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 12.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.0% across North Carolina. Early starts are more common than in North Carolina: 18.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.1%) 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 Stanly 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 Stanly 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 Stanly 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	Stanly County	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stanly County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across North Carolina, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute later than in 2009. Commuters in Stanly County now leave 20 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Stanly County in the whole series.

How does Stanly County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stanly County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 min	21.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.8%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stanly County is 22.9 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau